A fine and elegant wheel-lock tschinke dating: 17th Century provenance: Teschen Octagonal, smooth, 11 mm cal. barrel, slightly bell-mouthed at the nozzle, engraved at the base and tang with racemes, with engraved segment in the center, with the same motif, another similar decoration at the nozzle, with fore-sight, rear sight is missing. Wheel-lock with iron flat plate, all engraved with floral motifs. Similar engravings also on the covering band of the wheel, tang's plate and one the cock's grip. Thin, wooden stock, richly inlaid. All the length with bone plates, depicting animals and grotesques among the thin spirals, these elements alternated with mother-of-pearl disks. Lower part with a big lion, all among spirals and mother-of-pearl plates. Back of the butt decorated en suite. Some small restorations. Iron trigger-guard, iron sphere at the butt-plate, which is in one bone plate. Small patchbox with cover decorated en suite. Bone-tipped wooden ramrod. A beautiful specimen of one of the most fascinating seventeenth-century gun categories. Always difficult to find on the market and with very high quality decorations. length 120 cm.