A fine fully stocked luxury south German hunting rifle c 1760 mounted in finely cast and chiseled gilded brass. The butt decorated with a stag and Diana with dogs, the patch box cover with hunter, dog and boar, the chin rest with a compass rose, escutcheon with hunter and dog, the lock with set trigger carved with a mounted hunter with a dog after a stag in a landscape, the side plate with mounted hunters on a boar hunt with dogs, trigger guard with a bust and Diana with a gun, c 73,6 cm long octagonal barrel in calibre c 16,5 mm carved around the powder chamber and indistinctly marked C??? ???HEN STEIN. The fore -stock ends in horn and the brass tipped ramrod is held by three fluted gilded pipes. The stock is carved around the metal parts.
All iron spotted, the fore-stock cracked in front of the sideplate, an old repair by the middle ramrod pipe, the front barrel pin is missing and the stock is slightly cracked, the ramrod broken, the back sight is missing and the lock mechanical defect.