A CROSSBOW with light steel bow (loose), slender tapering fruitwood tiller (minor splits) inlaid with engraved white horn lines (minor old replacements) on either side of the bolt channel, iron and brass mounts, transverse rectangular hole behind the bow, iron lugs for a gaffle, iron trigger-lever, and bone nut, 16th Century, probably Spanish; an iron crossbow-bolt head retaining its original shaft (flights incomplete), 15th/16th Century; and eleven various iron crossbow-bolts each with flighted wooden shaft (flights incomplete), mostly 19th Century | Christie's

Lot 65

A CROSSBOW with light steel bow (loose), slender tapering fruitwood tiller (minor splits) inlaid with engraved white horn lines (minor old replacements) on either side of the bolt channel, iron and brass mounts, transverse rectangular hole behind the bow, iron lugs for a gaffle, iron trigger-lever, and bone nut, 16th Century, probably Spanish; an iron crossbow-bolt head retaining its original shaft (flights incomplete), 15th/16th Century; and eleven various iron crossbow-bolts each with flighted wooden shaft (flights incomplete), mostly 19th Century

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A CROSSBOW with light steel bow (loose), slender tapering fruitwood tiller (minor splits) inlaid with engraved white horn lines (minor old replacements) on either side of the bolt channel, iron and brass mounts, transverse rectangular hole behind the bow, iron lugs for a gaffle, iron trigger-lever, and bone nut, 16th Century, probably Spanish; an iron crossbow-bolt head retaining its original shaft (flights incomplete), 15th/16th Century; and eleven various iron crossbow-bolts each with flighted wooden shaft (flights incomplete), mostly 19th Century
The first 33¾in. (13)

Lot Essay

The crossbow can be compared with No. J18 in the Real Armeria, Madrid, which belonged to the Emperor Charles V (d. 1588), signed by Juan de la Fuente

See Valencia de Don Juan, Catálogo de la Real Armería de Madrid, 1898, fig. 236

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