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Lot 415*
An English Bullet CrossbowBy Bird, St. Andrew Street, 7 Dials, London, Circa 1798
29 November 2018, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £625 inc. premium
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By Bird, St. Andrew Street, 7 Dials, London, Circa 1798
By Bird, St. Andrew Street, 7 Dials, London, Circa 1798
With slender steel bow of triangular section, folding adjustable fore-sight operating against a side-spring, expertly replaced strings with steel spacers, signed border engraved folding back-sight acting against an external side-spring and mounted above the gaffle, the latter on a hinged extension engraved with a line of ovals and retained by a sprung catch at the rear, figured flat-sided tiller and gun butt cut with double line borders, steel mounts comprising bow mount secured by a threaded screw pierced for a tommy-bar and long side-plates, the tiller inlaid along the top with a border engraved flat brass plate decorated with flower-heads, butt-plate en suite, and brass trigger-guard with pineapple finial and decorated with a flower-head on the bow (steel parts with some light pitting and surface patination)
82 cm.
82 cm.
Footnotes
The maker is Thomas 1 Bird recorded at 42 Great Andrews St., Seven Dials, London between 1798 and 1799. He transferred to Birmingham where he worked in partnership with Richard(?) Ashmore between 1807 and 1811, the year before his death




