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Wheel-lock sporting gun or musket; long barrel, gilded and chased with delicately executed designs incorpating Jupiter, Mercury, etc., among scrolls and grotesques; one band at muzzle, one in middle, and a third at the breech; lock plate chased with triumph of Neptune; butt end covered with plate chased with scrolls; stock with snakewood veneer inlaid in detached panels with scrolls in ivory; ramrod tip a later replacement; some small pieces of inlay missing.
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