.42 caliber. 45.25" pinned octagonal barrel. SN: NSN. Browned finish, brass furniture, German silver inlays, full-length stockwtih raised cheek rest. Commercial single-screw percussion lock is a likely replacement and is marked "WABSCHE/DE/PADA" in three lines under the drum bolster. Barrel signed with illegible script initials. Lock with adjustable double set triggers, barrel with dovetailed fixed rear sight and dovetail German silver front sight blade in a brass base. Rifle mounted with a beautifully executed open-work four-piece brass patch box with the release in the toe plate. Other brass furniture includes a crescent buttplate with faceted tang, finger extension triggerguard, open work foliate finial toe plate, scroll saddle plate, open work side plate and brass nose cap. Stock decorated with 21 German silver inlays, including fish and leaf decorative coverings over pins in the forend, a heart along the toe line, a Y-shaped vine motif scroll around the tang to simulate an apron, swirling vines below the cheek rest, leaf motifs on the cheek rest tear drops at the wrist. Brass pipes secure a wood ramrod. A really lovely longrifle.