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An Unusual Basket-Hilted Broadsword
Late 18th Century

Antique Arms & Armour
25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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An Unusual Basket-Hilted Broadsword
Late 18th Century

With broad tapering double-edged blade with central fuller over nearly its entire length on each side, iron hilt comprising guard of slender bars of flattened rounded section riveted at the bottom to a pierced base-plate, the former framing oval side-plates pierced with circles, tapering central plate with triangular and small oval piercings centred on a star, and flanked by pairs of bars each shaped in the centre to form a saltire, the former with scrolled wrist-guard and riveted fore-guards, conical pommel incised with pairs of converging lines, and spirally grooved dark horn grip (rust patinated overall)
94 cm. blade

Footnotes

This form of sword is thought to have been produced in France, possibly for exiled Jacobites. For a similar example in the Marischal Museum, University of Aberdeen, see Cyril Mazansky, British Basket-Hilted Swords, 2005, p. 188, K2 (illustrated); and another example sold in these Rooms 14 April 2005, lot 132

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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons
A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century
A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later
FOUR REPRODUCTION CARVED POWDER HORNS/FLASKS.late 20th century.
THREE CARVED COCONUT ITEMS.18th/19th century.
A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.
THREE VICTORIAN ARMS AND ARMOUR DECORATIVE ITEMS.