A GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE with signed and dated octagonal sighted barrel rifled with fourteen grooves, plain lock stamped with maker's mark HI, a horn beneath (Neue Støckel 2909), flat integral wheel-cover pierced with three stylised hearts, the cock engraved with birds, full stock with fluted fore-end, and stamped behind the barrel tang with stockmaker's initials AS with crossed keys (of Regensburg) beneath, dark horn butt-plate and fore-end cap, iron trigger-guard, set trigger, and horn-tipped ramrod (forward ramrod-pipe replaced in wood), by Hieronymus Ilger, dated 1652