GERMANY. Superb carved walnut hunting wheeled harquebus decorated on the stock and the third of the barrel with a latticework of nets and iron nails in the form of scrolls and foliage, on the counterplate side, there is an oval iron medallion engraved with a gentleman with long hair holding in his left hand a sword symbol of power, stock drawer similarly decorated with plates engraved with floral motifs and a singing bird, octagonal barrel rifled and thunder engraved with foliage ending in 3 dog heads, muzzle slightly blunted and engraved on the upper side with a foliage, brass barley grain rear sight, thunder hallmark on the upper side of the barrel by Carl KEINER (J.F. StØckel: "Haandskydevaabens BedØmmelse", 1938, volume 1, p.149, ref. 560 to 565), on the left side of the P, proof mark of SUHL, flat-bodied moulded iron lock with integrated spinning wheel engraved with floral garlands and a running stag head to the left, finely cut and engraved hammer depicting a mermaid reflecting in a mirror, inside stamp SVL of the town of SUHL (Stadtverwaltung von Suhl) iron trimmings, trigger guard with finger rests, Stecher trigger, wooden ramrod with iron head. L: 107 cm, barrel: 78.5 cm. Electorate of Saxony 1650-1660. Carl KEINER, active between 1649 and 1680, belongs to a line of harquebusiers originating in EGER (today CHEB in the Czech Republic), father of Hans KEINER, produced in Eger and especially in Suhl, an important centre of production of firearms and edged weapons in the 17th century. CNES expert: Laurent Mirouze