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Lot 274
An English Basket-Hilted BroadswordMid-17th Century
27 July 2006, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,080 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 stamped 'Jacop' on each side of the forte, 'Irish' guard of slender rounded bars secured at the top by screws (two replaced) and involving fretted and incised saltires, fore-guards, faceted compressed globular pommel, and later spirally-grooved wooden grip bound with twisted wire (some pitting overall)
78.3 cm. blade
78.3 cm. blade








