A LARGE CROSSBOW, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY FLEMISH

with robust steel bow (string missing), long figured walnut tiller of gun-stock form with carved bolt channel, fitted with a pair of long iron plaques on each side over three-quarters of its length, a further plaque enclosing the nut, fitted with steel spike, brass nut, a pair of iron lugs for a windlass, iron trigger, iron trigger-plate, iron butt-cap and vacant white metal escutcheon

87.0 cm; 34 1/4 in tiller