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A Scottish Officer's Basket-Hilted BackswordCirca 1770
25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,760 inc. premium
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Circa 1770
Circa 1770
With single-edged blade cut with two narrow fullers along its back-edge for most of its length on each side, iron guard of fluted flattened bars with incised line borders framing, on each side, three vertical bars each with fretted keyhole piercings between circles and surmounted by a stylised heart-shaped piercing, the ovoidal side-panels en suite and centred on a cross pommé piercings, fore-guards, downscrolled wrist-guard, fluted conical pommel with button, and spirally-grooved leather-covered grip bound with twisted wire
87.5 cm. blade
87.5 cm. blade
Footnotes
For an almost identical hilt on a sword preserved in the Royal Armouries, Leeds (No. IX.831) see Cyril Mazansky, British Basket-Hilted Swords, 2005, p. 147, G7 (illustrated)








