A GERMAN CROSSBOW with robust steel bow retained by its original cords, original string of twisted cord, white-metal mounted ebonized tiller swelling towards the middle and inlaid on each side with a white-metal panel held by tacks and pierced and engraved with foliage, the butt and cheek-piece each with a panel decorated en suite and involving figures in late 16th Century costume (three panels incomplete), white-metal folding adjustable back-sight (fore-sight missing) and scrolled trigger-guard, small iron stirrup, lugs for cranequin, nut and pierced swivel safety-catch, set trigger, and iron cranequin decorated overall with later etched foliage and struck with a mark on the gear-box, three stars in a shield, and iron winding arm with wooden handle, the crossbow 19th Century, the cranequin late 16th Century