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AN ITALIAN STONEBOW
LATE 16TH CENTURY
With slender steel bow secured by iron loops, cord strings (loose) retaining one wooden spacer (the other missing), arched back-sight and two fore-sight pillars, each with architectural mouldings, slender tiller of rectangular section with curved neck, and iron-tipped spike, tapering butt with baluster pommel (incomplete) and carved double-scroll on the upper edge, and moulded curved trigger-lever
37¼in. (94.6cm.) overall
LATE 16TH CENTURY
With slender steel bow secured by iron loops, cord strings (loose) retaining one wooden spacer (the other missing), arched back-sight and two fore-sight pillars, each with architectural mouldings, slender tiller of rectangular section with curved neck, and iron-tipped spike, tapering butt with baluster pommel (incomplete) and carved double-scroll on the upper edge, and moulded curved trigger-lever
37¼in. (94.6cm.) overall