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12th November 2008, 03:41 PM
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Late Gothic Crossbows and Accouterments
The first two from Peter Finer's site.
More to follow. Michael |
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12th November 2008, 04:09 PM
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A highly unusual late Gothic windlass (the rolls missing), ca. 1520
The first text is from Christie's sales catalog of 27 April 1988 when this item was first sold by auction.
The second text and color images are from an Italian auction house where it failed to sell for the astronomic estimate they had put on it some weeks ago. Btw., their dating "late 15th century" is too early; the style of the engravings is not datable before ca. 1520. Michael |
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12th November 2008, 04:41 PM
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Two huge wall crossbows, mid 15th century
The first, about 170 cm high, together with a movable protective wall (that was most probably used by a harquebusier, though) , in the Imperial Castle of Nuremberg, the seond in the Bavarian Army Museum Ingolstadt and of somehat smaller dimensions.
The quiver, too, is of unusual size. Telling from the long, slender iron socket and the tiny arrow tip, the topmost of the two Ingolstadt crossbow bolts was originally an incendiary arrow, the incendiary mass now missing. The painted protective wall is also in the Bavarian Army Museum Ingolstadt. Michael |
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12th November 2008, 05:22 PM
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The other quiver in the Bayerisches Armeemuseum Ingolstadt. Its style of decoration refllects the Eastern European taste.
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24th November 2008, 08:07 PM
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A fine late 15th century Gothic crossbow
At the Kelvingrove Museum Glasgow.
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24th November 2008, 08:22 PM
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Late Gothic crossbows at the Army Museum Bukarest/Romania
Note the painted composite bow.
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