A SILESIAN WALL-LOCK BIRDING RIFLE ("TSCHINKE") Silesia, second half of the17th century.

Wooden stock with engraved ornamental bone and mother-of-pearl inlays. Iron mounts and brass mounts engraved with tendril motifs. Flat lockplate, lock with external mechanism. Pan with a pusher. Flat cock. Trigger with hair-trigger, fingered trigger guard. Butt with slider, bone plate with adjuster. Octagonal barrel, rifled (Cal. 11 mm, barrel length 96.5 cm), barrel marked N 12 CFR. Ramrod with horn tip.
L in total 125 cm.

Signs of corrosion, barrel attachment incomplete, stock slightly broken, inlays slightly incomplete.