AN ENGLISH WOODEN QUIVER, MID-19TH CENTURY, TWELVE ARROWS AND A CASED SET OF TEN ARROWS
AN ENGLISH WOODEN QUIVER, MID-19TH CENTURY, TWELVE ARROWS AND A CASED SET OF TEN ARROWS, 19TH CENTURY
the first of tapering rectangular section, the interior with provision for twenty one arrows, and the outer face sparsely inlaid with foliage (lid missing); the arrows with minor differences, one signed 'Aldred' each with short pointed bone tip, wooden haft swelling in the centre, feather flights (one missing, losses) and bone nocks; the second with short blunt iron heads, slender tapering wooden shafts, small bone nocks, and white feather flights, in a fitted wooden case inscribed 'W. Longman' on the lid
Property from the Edward McEwen Collection (1934-2020)
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AN ENGLISH WOODEN QUIVER, MID-19TH CENTURY, TWELVE ARROWS AND A CASED SET OF TEN ARROWS, 19TH CENTURY
the first of tapering rectangular section, the interior with provision for twenty one arrows, and the outer face sparsely inlaid with foliage (lid missing); the arrows with minor differences, one signed 'Aldred' each with short pointed bone tip, wooden haft swelling in the centre, feather flights (one missing, losses) and bone nocks; the second with short blunt iron heads, slender tapering wooden shafts, small bone nocks, and white feather flights, in a fitted wooden case inscribed 'W. Longman' on the lid
Property from the Edward McEwen Collection (1934-2020)
