A fine Silesian birding rifle Tschinke, circa 1660-70. With slender octagonal sighted barrel swamped at the muzzle, rifled with six grooves, overlaid with brass panels engraved with leaf and guilloche patterns at the muzzle, the median and the breech, the barrel tang en suite, iron lock of characteristic type almost entirely overlaid with brass panels engraved with stylised flowers and foliage, invol 17th century, Additional-Rights-Clearance-Info-Not-Available

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