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Lot 133
An Italian StonebowLate 16th Century
30 November 2016, 11:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,000 inc. premium
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Late 16th Century
Late 16th Century
With slender recurved iron bow with later string and retained by an iron bracket on each side secured by staples, architecturally arched folding back-sight and two fore-sight pillars, the latter each formed as a tapering column with pointed spherical terminals, fruitwood tiller of tapering rectangular section with curved neck, carved on each side with mouldings, and pierced with a large scroll behind the gaffle, tapering butt (incomplete), iron mounts including gaffle secured by a chiselled cartouche-shaped side-plate on each side, the neck with iron strap along the top and bottom, 'spike' at the front of octagonal section with iron tip and spherical finial, and curved trigger-lever of tapering circular section en suite
105 cm.
105 cm.
Footnotes
A brass plaque applied to the top of the butt is engraved 'Balestra Da Caccia A Pallottola Italia Del Nord Sec.XVII/XVIII
Cf. a very similar example sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms & Armour..., 18 April 2012, lot 104








