This c. 1640s musket has fixed blade and notch sights and no visible markings on the barrel. A raised "X" with dots in three quadrants pattern is present within the rectangular flash pan which has a heavy swiveling cover and vertical fence. The serpentine is actuated directly by the trigger, and the latter has a "pigtail" design. The full-length stock is secured with wooden pins and has two sheet iron forend tip bands, a narrow butt with "perch-belly" design, right handed thumb cutout, and a sheet iron buttplate. This musket was previously attributed to the line of the Baron Ernst von Gudenus, a line connected to the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the Duchess Sophie by way of marriage to their granddaughter Countess Sophie Graefin von Nostitz-Rieneck, and was reported as from Schloss Frondsberg located in the Duchy of Styria in Austria under the Hapsburg Monarchy. The musket may have been made and use during the latter years of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648).

Good. The metal has a mixed dark brown patina overall with pitting and rough texture. The stock is also good and has spots of white residue on the butt, some insect holes, a few scattered chips and minor cracks mainly in the forend, and general minor handling marks. Mechanically fine.