A RARE GERMAN THREE-SHOT FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECE with three-stage shortened sighted barrel engraved with stylised flowers and foliage at the breech and on each of the numbered revolving chambers, the first signed and fitted with swing-out safety-steel, the chambers separated by plain concave brass ribs and with applied iron flash-guard, back-action lock with moulded border, chiselled cock, steels, and steel-springs, walnut butt (wormed, replaced during the gun's working life), cheek-piece, sliding patch-box cover, iron trigger-guard and ramrod-pipes, and wooden ramrod (sling swivels missing), by Hardtman à Neüfen (Württermberg), early 18th Century