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1886.1.275

Repeating crossbow.

1886.1.275

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Collection type
Object
Description
Repeating crossbow.
Long description
Repeating crossbow. Wooden with a ?bamboo bow. The bow passes through the stock, either side of the box there are cane bindings on the bow. Fixed to the top of the stock is a rectangular magazine box, there is a wooden handle fixed to the stock and box. There is a curved wooden bar at the butt of the stock.
Geographical reference
China
Asia > Eastern Asia > China
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1878
Date collected
By 1878
Acquisition information
Transferred: 04/03/1886
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Material Bamboo Plant, Material Metal, Process Carved, Process Carpentered, Process Bound
Dimensions
Height: max 151 mm, Width: max 546 mm, Length: max 686 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1886.1.275 Other numbers: 70 319
Research and responses

I do not know why this object was apparently received twice at the PRM on different dates according to the lists stuck in the vellum volume [AP 18/6/99] * There is a note in the Ramsden collectors volume stating 'Retrospective numbers written in pencil down left hand column June 1975 E.S.G. Collated with A.M. but considerable problems encountered. All Ramsden seem to be in A.M.' Note that this exercise may have been the source of the confusion that occurred during Elizabeth Sandford Gunn's work on the Ashmolean collection with regard to numbers. In some instances, these numbers SEEM to have been used to number the objects (wrongly). [AP 15/7/99] This object is not mentioned in Collectors Miscellaneous XI Accession Book entry - Ramsden coll pages 223 - 255 [AP 21/7/99]

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