A heavy target crossbow, Dutch, 17th century. Forged steel bow (loose) with a replacement string. The carved walnut tiller (slight worm damage on the butt stock) has iron openwork hand rests on both sides, an iron bolt channel, and a curved iron trigger guard. Screw mounted bone nut. Length cm. historic, historical, 17th century, crossbow, crossbows, distance weapon, weapons, object, objects, clipping, cut out, cut-out, cut-outs,

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License: Licensed
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Keywords: 17th, bow, century, clipping, crossbow, crossbows, cut, cut-, cut-outs, distance, dutch, forged, heavy, object, objects, steel, target, weapon, weapons