A flintlock sporting gun with octagonal fluted steel barrel, the dark hardwood stock attached to the barrel with four shaped repoussé/chased silver bands and carved and applied with an engraved silver fretwork, arabesques and set with corals. With brass butt and a wooden ramrod with engraved/repoussé tip. Algerian hallmarks (MUHAMMAD) on the silver work. The lock is signed 'AMAL MUHAMMAD SANA 1179 ('Work of Muhammad, year 1179, i.e. A.D. 1764')