A FLEMISH TARGET CROSSBOW, LATE 17TH/18TH CEN... Lot n° 238
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A FLEMISH TARGET CROSSBOW, LATE 17TH/18TH CENTURY
with robust steel bow stamped with three star marks on the inside and a further mark, retained by a pair of moulded irons with shaped finials, later string, walnut tiller with flaring rest of characteristic form, applied with a large brass panel of shaped outline on each side of the nut cavity, fitted with later steel cord release, later nut, double set trigger, brass lined bolt channel, brass trigger-guard, heart-shaped iron stirrup (bent), and the rear of the tiller fitted with an adjustable steel rest (losses), 96.0 cm tiller
Provenance
Anderson Galleries Inc., New York, 16th March 1927, lot 313
John Woodman Higgins Armory (inv. no. 196), sold in this room 20th March 2013, lot 451
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