ANOTHER, with associated steel bow struck with a mark, retained by later iron loops and staple, and fitted with an old cord, wooden tiller (repaired and reduced at the fore-end) veneered along the top with panels of staghorn engraved with conventional foliage and strapwork between two longitudinal lines of staghorn each engraved with guilloche ornament, iron nut and forked horn bolt-clip, later iron stirrup, lugs for cranequin, trigger-lever, swivel safety-catch, folding trigger, and later horn butt-plate in two pieces, early 17th Century

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ANOTHER, with associated steel bow struck with a mark, retained by later iron loops and staple, and fitted with an old cord, wooden tiller (repaired and reduced at the fore-end) veneered along the top with panels of staghorn engraved with conventional foliage and strapwork between two longitudinal lines of staghorn each engraved with guilloche ornament, iron nut and forked horn bolt-clip, later iron stirrup, lugs for cranequin, trigger-lever, swivel safety-catch, folding trigger, and later horn butt-plate in two pieces, early 17th Century
24½in.

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