A .700 CALIBRE AUSTRIAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE BY FLUNCK IN ST PÖLTEN, CIRCA 1760-70 with signed rebrowned octagonal swamped sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves, fitted with associated brass back-sight and stamped with the barrelsmith's mark, a lion statant, its front paw on an orb above the initials 'E.F.', signed bevelled lock engraved with stag hunting scenes, fitted with engraved cock, steel and bridle (rubbed, top-jaw replaced), double set trigger, full stock carved with scrolls about the rear ramrod-pipe, the tang and over the butt, the latter with raised cheek-piece on the left and patchbox with sliding cover on the right (butt repaired), engraved brass mounts including solid side-plate decorated with a boar-hunting scene, trigger-guard, butt-cap and vacant escutcheon, three ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end cap and horn-tipped wooden ramrod 72.0 cm; 28 3/8 in barrel The maker's mark is not recorded in Støckel.