AN ITALIAN STONEBOW with slender steel bow (strings and retaining loops missing), moulded iron fore-sight pillars and arched back-sight, each with architectural mouldings, slender walnut stock of rectangular section with curved neck, tapering butt with baluster pommel (both old replacements), and moulded iron trigger-lever, the stock carved behind the back-sight with a grotesque mask and a winged sphinx, and behind the bow with a coat-of-arms within a cartouche, late 16th Century