This robust steel bow is attached by a large securement with metal plates to hold it in place. Connected to the lacquered wood stock with rivets, there are many metal components in place of other materials. Aside the suspension ring, the bolt track , bolt clip, nut and screws are all plated with metal, screwed into the column with exposed screws on the top metal securements. A shaped cheek rest is on the side of the butt, with burn marks on the lower half.
Thomas Del Mar mentions that this bow is completed with a steel cranequin with turned wooden handles, the claw mount stamped with a leaf mark.
robust steel bow struck with a mark on the inner face, early cords (torn), carved hardwood tiller veneered with ebony, the upper and lower surfaces each veneered with staghorn plaques finely engraved with scrolling foliage and ball flowers within segmental lines (chips and losses), fitted with iron string release, folding sight, lever trigger and stirrup (patinated) 53cm; 21in tiller This crossbow appears to have been modified in the 18th or early 19th Century. Its diminutive proportions would suggest that it was originally built for a lady or a young man. Estimate: £3000-4000 Sale Data: 05.12.2012 Hammer Price: €2800
robust steel bow retained by a pair of long steel side-plates (string and fore-sight missing), figured walnut tiller of gun-stock form, fitted with a moulded steel finial at the front, built-in gaffle including signed back-sight engraved with flowers (button trigger missing), and steel butt-plate engraved with the number '515' 71cm; 28in tiller William Barker is recorded making crossbows in Wigan, Lancashire, circa 1754-86. Estimate: £400-600 Sale Data: 05.12.2012 Hammer Price: €800 Barker
steel bow struck with a wheel mark (Neue Støckel 6452) and bound by cords together with suspension ring under a wooden saddle, fitted with string of twisted cords and retaining fragments of decorative textile pom-poms, fruitwood tiller down-curved slightly towards the rear, formed with a swell about the release mechanism and with shaped concave cheek-piece, veneered with strips of contrasting white staghorn over the full length of its upper and lower surfaces and over the cheek-piece, the veneer on the underside bordered by darker horn, the sides heightened over their contours by inlaid contrasting pale wooden lines, and with narrow strips of parquetry inlay forming a chain-like pattern in horn and contrasting woods along the full length of the upper and lower borders, fitted with bone nut moving on cords, lugs for a cranequin, trigger, long angular trigger-guard, safety-catch, thumb-rest formed as an iron staple, and the tiller with apertures for the insertion of rods to set the mechanism (bolt-clip missing) 63 cm; 24¾ in and 51.4 cm; 20¼ in bow The small proportions suggest that this bow was intended for use by a lady or young adolescent. The slender shape of the tiller and the reliance on contrasting plain veneers and parquetry borders are residual characteristics of the early 16th century. The steel bow is possibly a working replacement dating from the late 17th or early 18th century. Cf. two crossbows with tillers decorated in a similar manner, each attributed to Germany or the Netherlands, in the collection of the Counts von Trapp in Schloss Churburg (CH S315 & CH S317): see Scalini 1996, p.379 Estimate: £4500-6000 Sale Data: 03.12.2014 Hammer Price: €2500
broad steel bow of flattened-triangular section, tapering towards the terminals, wasted in the centre and retained by a threaded stem through the tiller with a thumb-screw beneath, and retaining a portion of its hardwood tiller with staghorn bolt channel 47 cm; 18 1/2 in bow Estimate: £120-180 Sale Data: 02.12.2015 Hammer Price: €110
robust steel bow retained by a pair of irons, shaped hardwood tiller, the top inset with an iron bolt channel and incorporating a shaped rest beneath, the sides with shaped iron plaques, fitted with bone nut, steel stirrup and long moulded iron trigger (worn, the elements loose, tiller cracked), complete with a iron windlass with cords and turned wooden handles 80.5 cm; 31 ¾ in tiller (2) Estimate: £800-1000 Sale Data: 02.12.2015 Hammer Price: €1100
associated recurved steel bow, walnut tiller decorated with engraved staghorn plaques including an escutcheon decorated with a pair of crossed keys and the date on the left of the cheek-piece and with patchbox with sliding cover on the right, fitted with steel nut, steel bolt clip, standing back-sight, double set trigger (incomplete), and trigger-guard shaped for the fingers (worn, areas of worm damage, restorations) 68cm; 26 3/4in tiller Estimate: £800-1200 Sale Data: 10.12.2008 Hammer Price: €800
robust construction, with unmarked ratchet-bar formed with a moulded claw-finial for attaching to the string, rounded gearbox left open on the underside, the base with a loop-shaped bracket fitted with a pair of claws for attaching to tiller-lugs, and curved winding-arm with angular tip for a handle (missing) 45 cm; 17 ¾ in overall Provenance Dr Bashford Dean, Riverdale, New York, purchased from his estate, 28 September 1929 JWHA Inv. No. 821 Estimate: £300-400 Sale Data: 07.05.2014 Hammer Price: €800
clawed ratchet-bar engraved with a series of crescents over its upper half, gearbox with slightly bevelled cover, stamped with a latten-lined mark, in a shield the Gothic letter 'P' beneath a pair of mullets, slender winding bar, turned wooden handle, and complete with an early cord-loop (worn, now detached) 33.0 cm; 13 in long Estimate: £600-800 Sale Data: 29.06.2016 Hammer Price: €1700
clawed ratchet bar engraved with a series of crescents over its upper half, gearbox with slightly bevelled cover, stamped with a latten-lined mark, in a shield the gothic letter P beneath a pair of mullets, slender winding bar, turned wooden handle, and complete with an early cord loop (worn, now detached) 33cm; 13in long Estimate: £800-1000 Sale Data: 28.06.2006 Hammer Price: €1400
ratchet bar moving through a wheel-case formed as a three-sided box on the left and open on the right, the cover plate part-open and bisected by a rib carrying the crank handle, the latter retaining the original wooden grip, and the inner face of the wheel-case retaining its original cords for fitting over a crossbow tiller (acid-cleaned, belt hook missing, two of the pinned joints with the wheel-case cover broken). 38.7cm; 15 ¼ in Estimate: £400-600 Sale Data: 24.06.2015 Hammer Price: €1600
