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DATED 1743
Details
A Saxon Sporting Crossbow
Dated 1743
With slender steel bow retaining its original string and cords, and some of its green pom-poms, walnut tiller sparsely inlaid with engraved white staghorn panels, iron nut, back-sight, and trigger-guard, and set trigger (horn bolt-clip and staghorn butt-plate missing)
27½in. (69.8cm.)
Dated 1743
With slender steel bow retaining its original string and cords, and some of its green pom-poms, walnut tiller sparsely inlaid with engraved white staghorn panels, iron nut, back-sight, and trigger-guard, and set trigger (horn bolt-clip and staghorn butt-plate missing)
27½in. (69.8cm.)
Provenance
The Saxon Royal Armouries, Dresden
Special notice
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