with slender steel bow (string missing) retained by a pair of irons terminating in a moulded finial at the front and fitted with folding fore-sight behind, slender tiller carved with pair of fluted lines on each face, built-in gaffle retained by a sliding iron ring (the lower portion only of the back-sight remaining), the forward section of the tiller inlaid on the top with an engraved shaped iron panel, a pair of scrolling side-bars, and turned pommel (the iron parts with light pitting), 79.0 cm tiller

Provenance

Martin Retting Collection (acquired circa 1969)