Lot 147
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AN EXTREMELY RARE GERMAN BOLT-QUIVER, of wood flaring toward the base and of plano-convex section covered on the front with pigskin, with the hair left in place, and on the back and at the mouth with leather, and fitted at the back near the top with a horizontal strap for suspension, late 15th Century

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AN EXTREMELY RARE GERMAN BOLT-QUIVER, of wood flaring toward the base and of plano-convex section covered on the front with pigskin, with the hair left in place, and on the back and at the mouth with leather, and fitted at the back near the top with a horizontal strap for suspension, late 15th Century
17¼in.

Lot Essay

Cf. a very similar quiver in the Kretzschmar von Kienbusch Collection, Philadelphia, No. 631; and another in the Royal Armouries, H.M. Tower of London (XI 120)

Quivers of this type are of the greatest rarity and very seldom appear on the open market. See Georg Hiltl, Waffen-Sammlung Sr. Königlichen Hoheit des Prinzen Carl von Preussen, Berlin, 1877, pp. 113-14

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