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Steel, iron, wood, hemp rope, bone, wool tassels. Steel bow, marked with a crown in a circle. Hemp binding decorated with wool tassels. Wooden statue, partial bone panels along the sides with fishscale decoration and bone hearts. Figure of an armor-bearer engraved in the bone on the statue; engraved volutes and acanthuses. Elements made of bone. Iron lock and iron pin for the spanner; pin trigger. Marked on inside. Restored at the National Museum in Prague. Published: Arma diaboli - O kuši a střelcích, Vladimír Brych (ed.), p. 82; Rožumberkové, rod českých velmožů a jeho cesta dějinami, published by the National Heritage Institute České Budějovice, p. 592 fig. 2. Exhibited: "The Rosenbergs: A Czech Noble Family," Waldstein Riding Hall, Prague, 2011; "Arma diaboli - On Crossbows and Crossbowmen," National Museum in Prague, 2012.