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Lot 409
An East Anglian Sporting CrossbowCirca 1770-80
28 July 2010, 14:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £360 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistAn East Anglian Sporting Crossbow
Circa 1770-80
Circa 1770-80
With long recurved steel bow (string missing), figured gun butt with slender shaped and angled tiller, iron mounts with waved terminals along each side of the grip, iron nut and curved tapering lever trigger, and iron lugs for a goat's foot lever (missing, iron parts pitted)
84 cm.
84 cm.
Footnotes
For another example formerly in the Albert Littler Collection see Christie's London, Antique Arms and Armour ..., 18 July 2002, lot 221








