Beschreibung:

ANOTHER, the barrel rifled with seven grooves and struck at the breech with the Strasburg mark (Neue Støckel 1633) and barrelsmith's mark (Neue Støckel 487), rounded detented lock with pierced and chiselled scrolls on the cock and steel and with further maker's mark in front of the pan, walnut full stock carved with scrolls and foliage in relief behind the barrel tang and with a grotesque profile mask and a wild man within scrollwork on the cheek-piece, the patch-box cover with a boar and a lion, iron mounts including flat butt-plate, rounded scroll side-plate, and trigger-guard with foliate finials, turned pierced iron ramrod-pipe, set trigger, engraved horn fore-end cap, and horn-tipped ramrod, by Lorenz Helbe of Strasburg, third quarter of the 17th Century 33½in. barrel [E.264, S.7