A RARE SPANISH SPORTING CROSSBOW with recurved bow struck four times with a mark, an 'M' within a circle and stamped 'No 30' on the underside, and later string, the iron retaining loops replaced with a steel plate, straight fruitwood tiller inlaid with staghorn in the bolt channel and with staghorn nut, and iron trigger-lever of rectangular section, late 16th Century | Christie's

Lot 222

222

A RARE SPANISH SPORTING CROSSBOW with recurved bow struck four times with a mark, an 'M' within a circle and stamped 'No 30' on the underside, and later string, the iron retaining loops replaced with a steel plate, straight fruitwood tiller inlaid with staghorn in the bolt channel and with staghorn nut, and iron trigger-lever of rectangular section, late 16th Century

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A RARE SPANISH SPORTING CROSSBOW with recurved bow struck four times with a mark, an 'M' within a circle and stamped 'No 30' on the underside, and later string, the iron retaining loops replaced with a steel plate, straight fruitwood tiller inlaid with staghorn in the bolt channel and with staghorn nut, and iron trigger-lever of rectangular section, late 16th Century
32¾in. [E.95]

Lot Essay

cf. a similar bow with the same mark in the Royal Armoury, Madrid (Inv. No. 537) illustrated in Valencia de Don Juan, fig. 246

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