With slender steel bow, two fore-sight pillars each with button finial, characteristic fruitwood tiller carved with scrolls (old repair around mechanism), iron mechanism, sender baluster trigger, and folding arched iron rear-sight (some corrosion marking to iron parts) 37 ¾ in. (96cm.) overall £1,200-1,500

The first with iron bow retaining original cord strings, walnut tiller with chequered grip, iron mounts engraved with decorative borders, scrollwork and game scenes, the folding rear-sight signed 'BOLTON WIGAN', the fore-end signed 'BOLTON'S IMPROVED CROSS BOW, and silver escutcheon engraved with initials (fore-sight posts missing, iron parts discoloured, tiller cracked and repaired around mechanism and on butt); the second of characteristic form with shaped horn nocks, green textile covered grip, and numbered '46' The first 30¼in. (76.7cm.) span, the second 74in. (188cm.) long (2) £500-800 US$760-1,200 € $70-900