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Lot 181
A Sporting Crossbow In German Late 16th Century Style
23 July 2015, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £3,500 inc. premium
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With robust steel bow partly covered in leather and secured by cords, string of twisted cords, wooden tiller swelling towards the centre and inlaid along each side with staghorn panels engraved with a sportsman aiming his longarm, running stags and hounds, all between incised scrollwork enriched with staghorn stars and pellets, the top veneered in engraved white staghorn secured around the borders with copper nails, horn fore-sight and nut, artificially pitted bolt-clip and hinged back-sight, iron trigger-lever and cranequin lugs, and staghorn butt-cap
63 cm. long
63 cm. long








