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Lot 272
An English Basket-Hilted BroadswordMid-17th Century
27 July 2006, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £660 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistAn English Basket-Hilted Broadsword
Mid-17th Century
Mid-17th Century
With tapering double-edged blade of flattened hexagonal section indistinctly stamped '1616' within the short fuller on each side of the forte, 'Irish' guard of slender bars involving incised and punched saltires, fore-guards, associated flattened circular pommel, and later leather-covered wooden grip (pitted overall)
82.7 cm. blade
82.7 cm. blade
Footnotes
For this and the following two lots see Cyril Mazansky, British Basket-Hilted Swords, 2005, pp. 74-83








