Images depicting
- a very fine cranequin dated 1540, and struck with the well-known maker's mark of the Nuremberg 'Master of the crossed arrows' (definition set up by Michael Trömner), lined in brass
and
- an unusually finely wrought cranequin, defined as a masterpiece; the ratched bar elaborately engraved with petiolate trefoils set within a grapevine pattern, and dated 1545.
Cf.
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...bow+collection
Both cranequins are struck with the Nuremberg workshop mark of the 'Master of the crossed arrows'.
German private collection
Best,
Michael Trömner
Last edited by Matchlock; 24th June 2014 at 10:48 AM.
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