A SMALL GERMAN STONEBOW (SCHNEPPER) of characteristic form, with slender steel bow (strings missing), two fore-sight pillars, folding back-sight mounted on the built-in gaffle, trigger set by a button in front of the angular trigger-guard, and lightly carved fruitwood butt with punched decoration within double lines (circular escutcheon missing), early 17th Century

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A SMALL GERMAN STONEBOW (SCHNEPPER) of characteristic form, with slender steel bow (strings missing), two fore-sight pillars, folding back-sight mounted on the built-in gaffle, trigger set by a button in front of the angular trigger-guard, and lightly carved fruitwood butt with punched decoration within double lines (circular escutcheon missing), early 17th Century
18½in.

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