With 21 in. (54.5 cm.) steel bow, original cord binding and twisted cord string, one woollen pom-pom remaining, hardwood tiller with white staghorn panels engraved with scrolling foliage, base for a rear-sight, cord-bound iron trigger-guard, and set trigger £2,000-2,500 $3,100-3,800 € 2,900-3,500

With 20% in. (51 cm.) steel bow struck with a marker's mark, original cord binding, fruitwood tiller inlaid with white staghorn panels, scrolls and dots (some loss), folding iron rear-sight, iron trigger-guard and trigger £1,000-1,500 $1,600-2,300 €1,500-2,100

With 27 ½ in. (70 cm.) steel bow, fruitwood tiller with cheek-piece and inlaid with white staghorn panels and diamonds, some engraved including one behind the aperture rear-sight depicting a hunting scene, another signed 'K. BAUMANN', set triggers, iron trigger-guard, and original twisted cord string with woollen pom-poms £1,000-1,500 $1,600-2,300 €1,500-2,100

With 21 ½ in. (54.5 cm.) steel bow struck with a mark, original cord binding, later twisted cords string, hardwood tiller with white staghorn panels engraved with scrolling foliage, folding iron rear-sight, set trigger, and iron trigger-guard $ 1,500-2,000 $2,300-3,000 €2,200-2,800

With walnut stock inlaid with engraved white stag-horn panels throughout, one initialled 'GE' by the stocker, horn butt-plate inscribed 'No. 1', steel bow struck with arrow-shaped maker's mark, and retaining original cord and faded red woollen tassels, 27 in. (68.5 cm.) overall $1,000-1,500 $ 1,600-2,300 €1,500-2,100 PROVENANCE: Highly Important Arms from the Saxon Royal Collections, Sotheby & Co., London, 23 March 1970, lot 37 (originally accompanied by its original goat's foot lever, now lacking).

With 21 ¼ in. (54 cm.) steel bow struck with a maker's mark, original cord binding, later twisted cord string, fruitwood tiller with inlaid white staghorn panels, lines and roundels each engraved with foliage or running scrollwork, horn bolt-clip, set trigger and iron lever trigger, with old brass collection tag €1,500-2,000 $2,300-3,000 €2,200-2,800

With 19 ¾ in. (50 cm.) steel bow struck with a maker's mark, original twisted cord string, iron-mounted stock with white staghorn bolt-channel, heart-shaped escutcheon and butt-plate, sprung folding front sight of notched arms, folding rear-sight, and lever-trigger £700-1,000 $1,100-1,500 €990-1,400

Of iron, with robust ratchet-bar with bifurcated hooked terminal, shaped gearbox fitted with a chamfered cover struck with a brass-lined mark, and later cord-bound loop £1,000-1,500 $1,600-2,300 €1,500-2,100

With robust steel bow struck with a mark, a cross i n a c i r c l e s u r m o u n t e d by a c o r o n e t . a n d s e c u r e d bv its original cords, wooden tiller swelling towards t h e m i d d l e a n d w i t h h o l l o w e d c h e e k - p i e c e , t h e top entirely veneered in white staghorn engraved with flower-heads and flowering foliage, the sides and bottom with inlaid white staghorn bands. engraved with further foliage, the butt-plate engraved with scrollwork and a large flower-head, bone nut, folding iron rear-sight replacing the bolt-clip, iron cranequin-lugs retaining some gilt finish, incomplete gilt set trigger mechanism with swivelling safety-catch, and iron suspension loop 24in. (61cm.) span $7,000-9,000 US$11,000-14,000 €7,900-10,000

With slender steel bow retained by cords, with cord string and pom-poms (one pom-pom missing, the string and pom-poms early replacements), moulded fruitwood tiller carved with a scroll in front of the cheek-piece and inlaid over much of its surface with engraved staghorn pellets and flowers, the butt decorated with three differing portrait heads on the right, the raised cheek-piece inlaid with a coat-of-arms, scrolls, a cornucopia, a castle within a landscape, and the abbreviated inscription 'I. W.V.R. AD 1657', bone bolt-channel and fruitwood bolt-guide, the latter decorated with engraved staghorn birds, iron nut, small stirrup, shaped trigger-guard, and set triggers 24 ½ in. (62.2cm.) long £3,500-4,000 US$5,300-6,000 €4,000-4,500 PROVENANCE: Sotheby's, London, 7 December 2001, lot 5$ This bow appears to have been refurbished in the 19th century

With slender steel bow with cord string, probably original, two fore-sight pillars with turned cross-piece fitted to the front of the tiller, sliding fore-end cut with a channel for the bolt and small block containing the clip for the string both operated by the lever-arm, the block incorporating a spring-clip to hold the tail of the bolt in position and a folding rear-sight, the lever-arm struck with a gold-lined (some loss) maker's mark of a squirrel and retained by a spring-clip, set trigger, slender trigger-guard, and lightly carved walnut butt of characteristic form inlaid with a bone oval engraved with initials (cleaned bright overall, fore-sight cross-piece probably replaced) 25/in. (65.8cm.) overall A 1,500-2,000 US$2,300-3,000 €1,700-2,200

With robust steel bow struck with a mark, a cross in a circle surmounted by a coronet, and secured by its original cords, wooden tiller swelling towards the middle and with hollowed cheek-piece, the top entirely veneered in white staghorn engraved with flower-heads and flowering foliage, the flanks and underside with inlaid white staghorn bands engraved with further foliage (some loss to staghorn on the underside), the butt-plate engraved with scrollwork and a large flower-head, bone nut, folding iron rear-sight replacing the bolt-clip, iron cranequin-lugs retaining some gilt finish, incomplete gilt set trigger mechanism with swivelling safety-catch, and iron suspension loop 24in. (61cm.) span £6,000-7,000 USS9,100-11,000 €6,800-7,900