LARGE GERMAN SPORTING CROSSBOW (GANZE RÜSTUNG)
LATE 17TH / EARLY 18TH CENTURY
£693
Auction: Select Property from Towie Barclay Castle, Aberdeenshire - 27th March 2024 at 10am
Description
with heavy steel bow retained by steel brackets, large steel cocking stirrup, without string, slender tapering fruitwood tiller, inlaid with a bone stringing over the full length and mother of pearl decoration to the top, the sides inlaid with scrolling steel design, fitted with bone/staghorn flat/flight grove and wooden sight, brass bolt-clip, steel trigger with acorn terminal
Dimensions
113cm long, 83cm wide
Provenance
Karen and the late Marc Ellington, Towie Barclay Castle, Aberdeenshire