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Lot 96
An English Basket-Hilted BackswordEarly 18th Century
6 April 2006, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,560 inc. premium
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Early 18th Century
Early 18th Century
With earlier blade (edges nicked) double-edged towards the point and with narrow double fuller bordering the back on each face each stamped 'Clemens Dinger' between orb and cross marks, the iron hilt of slender rounded bars framing solid panels, the forward one numbered '35', forward loops, later compressed pommel, fishskin-covered grip bound with twisted brass wire, and buff-leather liner
80.5 cm. blade
80.5 cm. blade
Footnotes
For a similar sword in the Royal Armouries, Leeds (IX. 1785) see Cyril Mazansky, British Basket-Hilted Swords, 2005, p. 94, F1








