A BAVARIAN PERCUSSION CAPE RIFLE BY RIEGER, CIRCA 1840 with 20 bore smooth bored left barrel and

A BAVARIAN PERCUSSION CAPE RIFLE BY RIEGER, CIRCA 1840 with 20 bore smooth bored left barrel and 11mm rifled right barrel, signed in silver on the rib and fitted with rifle sights, engraved breech inlaid with a silver line, scroll-engraved case-hardened tang, scroll-engraved case-hardened locks decorated with neo-rococo ornament, fitted with gravity stops and cocks decorated en suite, figured walnut half-stock cut with panels of chequering, the butt with raised cheek-piece carved with foliage on the left and patchbox with sliding cover with bone button release on the right, broad wooden trigger-guard carved with an expanded flower head on the rear scroll and reinforced at the front with an engraved case-hardened steel panel, engraved case-hardened tang numbered `3997`, German silver barrel bolt escutcheons, and brass-tipped ramrod 72.3cm; 28 1/2in barrels