A GERMAN SPORTING CROSSBOW with slender steel bow struck with a mark, painted blue within yellow borders and retained by its original gold painted cords (string missing), original blue and yellow woollen tassles (partly loose), walnut full stock (wormed and filled), shoulder stock of rifle type with incised decoration and cheekpiece, horn bolt-channel, iron loop, nut, spur trigger-guard, butt-plate, bolt-clip, and adjustable back-sight, and set trigger (the last three incomplete, heel of butt-plate pitted), early 18th Century