converted from flintlock, with blued octagonal swamped barrel cut with seven grooves, signed in silver and numbered "2" over the breech, the signature interrupted by the gold-lined barrelsmiths stamps, plain tang incised with the gun room number '19', signed rounded lock, double set trigger, figured walnut full stock carved with rococo scrolls over the fore-end, about the lock and the tang, carved raised cheek piece, sliding patch box cover en suite, the butt carved in imitation of a butt-plate, brass side-plate of shaped outline, brass trigger-guard, horn fore-end cap (chipped) and brass-tipped ramrod

The Kuchenreuter family are recorded in Regensburg as Court gunmakers, or  Hofbüchsenmacher,  to the Princes von Thurn und Taxis.