A beautiful matchlock arquebus dating: Late 16th Century provenance: Holland, Heavy, rifled and octagonal, 15.6 mm cal. barrel, three frames at the base, two not clearly legible marks and '15.6' (probably the caliber) on the sides, fixed rear sight decorated with a carved leaf, brass foresight. Side pan with pan cover pierced with an opening and a carved pommel. Tang with sight, screw carved as a flower. Lock with flat lock plate with a snake-shaped hammer, the right border featuring a mark with a flower in an oval. Wooden full stock richly decorated with bone plates, partially painted green, some restored, the butt on the side of the lock representing a boar shooting, the opposite part and the counterplate are decorated with beautiful military scenes representing knights and soldiers wearing the uniforms of the XVI century and armed with cannons, powder barrels, cannon balls, matchlock rifles, drum and castle. The other elements decorated with ornamental bands, hop, round and oval plates decorated with floral motifs. Long iron trigger. Bone-tipped wooden ramrod. Small missing parts and defects. Origin: Vendita Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, September 2010, lot 554 with sale for 20,000 fs.Fuse guns decorated with bone inlays are rare and have always been high-level collectibles.The description of Lucerne describes the rifle as German, however it is more likely that it is a Dutch job. In favor of this attribution see similar objects in the Visser collection, part I cat. no. 1,2,3, pages 44/49 and another in the Rothschild collection in Waddesdon Manor (by Claude Blair) no. 96 pg. 243/246. length 165 cm.