‡ A RARE ZISCHÄGGE OF SIEGE WEIGHT, MID-17TH CENTURY,... Lot 181

‡ A RARE ZISCHÄGGE OF SIEGE WEIGHT, MID-17TH CENTURY, SOUTH GERMAN OR EAST EUROPEAN with one-piece hemispherical crown fitted at its apex with a ring finial on a large star-shaped washer (one point of the latter chipped), struck at the left back with a proof-mark of a bullet, fitted with an obtusely-pointed peak with a later sliding nasal-bar secured by a locking-screw, neck-guard of five upward-overlapping lames (lacking two rivets), the lowest drawn-out to an obtuse point, a pair of large pendent scutiform cheek-pieces, formed throughout with plain inward-turned edges accompanied by pairs of incised lines, studded with domed lining-rivets and further rivets in a rosette-formation on the cheek-pieces and the tail, retaining an early black finish and small portions of an early lining (one cheek-piece releathered), 30.5 cm high