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Title
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A GERMAN SPORTING CROSSBOW INSCRIBED 'BILNITZ'
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HCA Identifier
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61
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Collection Location
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Private Collection
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Date
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EARLY 18TH CENTURY
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Description
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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).
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Source
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FINE ANTIQUE ARMS,
ARMOUR &
SPORTING GUNS
INCLUDING A COMMEMORATION OF
WELLINGTON, THE NAPOLEONIC WARS
AND WATERLOO
South Kensington
17 December 2015
