A JAPANESE SAMURAI BOW. Together with arrows and a velvet quiver with gilt metal and leather embellishment Bow: 83"

The bow in this lot has a significant amount of surface scuffing, but no serious damage to the lacquer surface. The wrapped parts of the bow has some scuffing with light surface loss. The wrapped areas located at the top, the bottom section, and fourth from the top have some cracking, breaking, and fiber loss. There appears to have once been a red pigment on these wrapped areas that s all worn off. The bow is lacking a string. There is a 1" x .5" section of the bow where something was mounted to the surface, and is now missing. The arrows are all missing most of the feathers at the end and there is some feather residue remaining. The arrows have significant wear light cracking and chipping to the painted surface. Two arrows are cracked in half and one is the pointed half. Two have the steel arrow head. The bag has significant wear, with scatteried .5" holes in the velvet surface fabric, and pigment loss to the black leather. The smaller sections fabric is starting to pull off. The bag has a medium amount of grime build up.