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Title
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A GERMAN SPORTING CROSSBOW
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HCA Identifier
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64
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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 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
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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
