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Lot 139
A Composite English Basket-Hilted SwordMid-Late 17th Century
25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge£800 - £1,000
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Find your local specialistA Composite English Basket-Hilted Sword
Mid-Late 17th Century
Mid-Late 17th Century
With tapering double-edged blade (pitted) with short fuller on each side of the forte and incised with a running wolf mark beyond, 'Irish' guard of slender rounded bars joined at the top and involving a saltire on each side incised with lines, slender fore-guards, globular pommel with button, and spirally-grooved fishskin-covered grip bound with twisted wire
80.5 cm. blade
80.5 cm. blade
Footnotes
See Cyril Mazansky, British Basket-Hilted Swords, 2005, pp. 74-83








