A fine wheel-lock sporting gun Bohemian or German, circa 1680-1700. With lightly swamped octagonal sighted smooth-bore barrel, the lock finely engraved with the figure of a harpist, the Grecian poet Orpheus, seated in an idyllic landscape below the walls of a city and amid a gathering of game and exotic African beasts, the dog pierced and e 17th century, Additional-Rights-Clearance-Info-Not-Available

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