Rare arbalète gothique, Allemagne ou Suisse... - Lot 134 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

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Rare arbalète gothique, Allemagne ou Suisse... - Lot 134 - Pierre Bergé & Associés
Rare arbalète gothique, Allemagne ou Suisse fin XVe siècle; avec une reconstitution de ceinture à armer les arbalettes. A rare Gothic crossbow, German or Swiss, late 15th century. With robust bow of so-called composite type built up from strips of horn covered with layers of sinew and the outer surfaces retaining fragments of the original decorated bark covering, retained by later cords also carrying a later iron stirrup, with pearwood long slender tiller swelling in section about the nut, the top, the sides and the underside veneered in contrasting white horn panels of characteristic Gothic design, enriched with delicate inlaid pierced horn scrollwork plaques both over the sides and over the underside towards the bow, the upper surface veneer decorated with a contrasting dark horn marquetry scrollwork finial issuant from an heraldic shield engraved with a coat-of-arms, two fish laid opposite, a trefoil flower below and a rosette above, fitted with a long iron trigger-release and later cord pull for the trigger mechanism, pierced for a rod setting the trigger mechanism behind the staghorn nut, and fitted with a transverse iron rod for the a cranequin loop. Together with a reconstruction of an archer's waist-belt for spanning crossbows, made of brown leather and fitted with an iron hook to pull the bow-string onto the nut, in "aged" condition throughout. L.: 98 cm - L. bow: 76.5 cm. Provenance: Galerie Fischer, Luzern, November 25, 1964, lot 212 (CHF 2,400); the crossbow only. Prior to advancement in the techniques for producing steel of sufficient flexibility, the crossbow in Europe exclusively used a bow of laminated horn. This so-called composite construction provided adequate levels of strength, flexibility and power. Within the early decades of the 16th century the composite bow was superseded by a steel bow and crossbows of this type were modernised accordingly.
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