The steel prod is fitted with a later addition bowstring, and is retained by later cords and two pom-poms. The fruitwood stock has a panel of engraved staghorn on the top forming the bolt channel. The cheek-piece is carved with a scroll at the front and inlaid with a star in contrasting colours of horn and bone. The length of the stock is inlaid with further panels of engraved staghorn including ball flowers, fruit and scrolls. The crossbow is fitted with a steel stirrup and nut, double set trigger, horn bolt clip which is a functional replacement, a scalloped bone thumb rest, and a pair of very short lugs for a cranequin.
The crossbow features a robust steel prod with a later addition bowstring. The walnut stock takes the form of a gun-stock and has a carved bolt channel, fitted with an adjustable brass bolt guide at the front and on each side of the nut. The former with a steel spike-rest beneath. The sides of the stock are encased in large steel plaques and signed on the left. The brass nut, a pair of lugs for a cranequin, steel bar trigger, brass butt-plate, brass trigger plate, and steel pivot mount, with a ratchet bar from a windlass are also visible features of this weapon.
This crossbow has a heavy steel prod retained by large moulded iron and fitted with an early bowstring. The walnut stock has a large protruding bevelled rest, steel-lined bolt channel, bone nut, and is inlaid with a vacant heart-shaped escutcheon. The stock has large brass side-plates, a steel stirrup, a steel bar trigger, and a moulded steel trigger-guard.
The crossbow has a robust recurved steel prod, and a later addition string, The stock is crafted of walnut and takes the form of a gun stcok. The stock is encased with large steel plaques over the sides, signed and inlaid with an engraved scrolling plaque. The butt plate is made of engraved steel.
The crossbow is fitted with a steel prod and features an early string with bone spacers, an incomplete folding fore-sight. The walnut stock is slender and the butt is decorated with a turned steel knob-shaped finial. The weapon has a built-in gaffle, rear-sight and plain steel side-plates.
This crossbow features a robust recurved steel bow with a later addition bowstring. The walnut stock is slender with a turned knob-shaped butt. The stock is encased with large steel plaques over the sides. The brass nut, pair of lugs for a cranequin, and lever trigger with spirally moulded pierced finial are also visible.
This crossbow features a steel prod fitted with a later string with wooden spacers. The folding fore-sight is incomplete. The stock is crafted of walnut and takes the form of a gun-stock. It has a built-in gaffle, rear-sight engraved with a flower, and an engraved steel butt plate.
This crossbow is fitted with a slender steel prod, and a folding fore-sight, which is missing one arm. The stock is of slender hardwood, retaining some engraved bone plaques on the top. The underside is inlaid with twisted brass wire and a built-in steel gaffle.
This crossbow has a slender steel prod retained by a pair of iron fore sights, and fitted with a later string. The stock is crafted of blackened hardwood and inlaid with slender plaques of engraved bone, carved with a scrolling monster above the trigger. The stock is fitted with a folding back-sight. The slender trigger is moulded finial, and the prod features a carved frontal finial formed as a marine monster and a turned pommel inlaid with a bone roundel engraved with a crested coat-of-arms.
This crossbow has a slender steel prod which is missing its bowstring. It has a pair of fore-sight pillars, a built-in gaffle retained by a spring-catch at the rear stamped with a maker's mark (Neue Støckel 3133). The crossbow has a domed lever terminal, and a rectangular folding rear-sight. The fruitwood butt of the stock is inlaid with staghorn lines.
The slender steel prod is fitted with a later string of bound cord. The slender fruitwood stock is incised with pairs of lines over its full length and inlaid with an engraved shaped brass panel on the top. It is fitted with a built-in steel gaffle with a folding rear-sight, a button-shaped cocking lever retained by a slender steel band, a folding fore-sight with later string and ivory ball, a pair of steel side-plates, and compressed steel pommel.
The steel prod is struck with two marks (Neue Støckel 6451)and retained by later addition cords. The prod is fitted with an adjustable steel collar joined by a steel stirrup on each side of the stock and later bowstring. The hardwood stock is veneered with engraved staghorn plaques on the top and bottom. The latter is decorated with two allegorical figures including fortune beneath the bow, a green man mask centring on an aperture for inserting loading rods, and profile masks on each side of the mechanism. The sides of the stock are finely inlaid with engraved staghorn plaquettes, including a running pattern of scrolling foliage, ball flowers and profile masks. The top of the stock is fitted with a later wooden bar for use as a slurbow. The iron nut, iron trigger-guard and a pair of iron lugs for loading are visible. It would appear that this was modified for use as a slurbow in the early 19th century, which is probably when the string and cords were replaced.
