A fine Bohemian wheellock hunting rifle c 1700 by Johan Wolfgang Schiller with a classical German stock mounted in gilded brass inlaid with a hunting scene in bone on the butt, a finely carved lock engraved with hounds and boar, the cock with a hunter with spear, a large side-plate with a hunting scene, the trigger guard with Diana, a wooden ramrod brass tipped on one end and iron tipped on the other held to the stock by three fluted pipes, c 74 cm long octagonal damascene barrel in calibre c 15 mm rifled with eight deep grooves. The stock is nicely carved with hounds and bear, the patch box cover with the Saxon coat of arms is not original to the gun. The lock is marked JOH WOLFFG. SCHILLER IN ASCH, Johan Wolfgang Schiller is likely a member of the Scheller family but is not mentioned in Stöckel.
The iron slightly spotted.