‡ A GERMAN CRANEQUIN FOR A CROSSBOW, DATED 15... Lot n° 194

‡ A GERMAN CRANEQUIN FOR A CROSSBOW, DATED 1539 with clawed ratchet-bar stamped with the date at the top, gearbox with slightly bevelled cover, stamped with a mark (Neue Støckel 2534), chiselled on one side with a six-point star, curved writhen winding bar, turned wood handle with small bone ferrule, cord loop (perhaps early), later belt hook, later copper alloy tab, and circular brass inventory tag ‘1461’, 39.8 cm Provenance Frank Bivens This maker is recorded circa 1561-80 with other examples of his work being preserved in the Museum für Deutsches Geschichte, Berlin, the Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen, and the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremburg.