A 27-BORE BAVARIAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE BY JOHANN WOLF PETER IN ÖTTINGEN, EARLY 18TH CENTURY with swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with eight grooves, struck with a mark (obscured beneath the edge of the stock) and fitted with chiselled back-sight, bevelled lock vertically fluted towards the rear, sparsely engraved with leaf ornament and wavy linear borders, signed "I.W.Peter in Öttin" (sic.) and the pan-cover fitted with swing-out safety-steel, carved moulded figured walnut full stock, the butt with carved raised cheek-piece and fitted with sliding carved moulded patch-box cover, plain faceted full brass mounts including solid side-plate matching the outline of the lock, three ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end cap, and wooden ramrod (the stock with a repaired crack running diagonally through it immediately ahead of the butt, the ramrod incomplete). 85.4cm; 33 5/8 in barrel £1200-1500