A GERMAN SPORTING CROSSBOW with robust steel bow struck with a mark, a cross within a circle, and secured by its original cords and retaining its original green tassels (one loose), later cord, wooden tiller swelling towards the middle and veneered with ebony and white staghorn (butt-plate missing), later iron nut engraved with the initial F, original green tassels, later folding iron back-sight (fore-sight missing), small iron stirrup, iron lugs for cranequin, trigger-lever bound with its original cord and retaining its original green tassels, folding set trigger set by a string and fitted with safety-catch, and plain iron cranequin with cord loop, green tassels, and turned handle of wood and staghorn, early 17th Century