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Lot 179
An English BackswordCirca 1640
6 April 2006, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,320 inc. premium
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Circa 1640
Circa 1640
With tapering blade double-edged towards the point and cut with a double fuller along the back-edge for most of its length on each side, iron 'mortuary' hilt with solid guard roughly chiselled with foliage, drawn out into a knuckle-guard flanked by similar side-bars and linked by diagonal scrolls, the knuckle-guard and side-bars screwed to the roughly chiselled globular pommel (screws replaced), and wooden grip (wormed, wire binding missing, pitted overall)
82.5 cm. blade
82.5 cm. blade








