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Lot 111

A Cavalry Trooper's Backsword
Circa 1760

22 April 2009, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £840 inc. premium

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A Cavalry Trooper's Backsword
Circa 1760

With straight tapering single-edged blade with narrow fuller along the back for most of its length on each side, iron basket guard (old repair) pierced with slender side-bars on each side, and with an oval aperture for reins on one side, bun-shaped pommel, and later leather-covered grip bound with twisted iron wire (pitted overall)
90.5 cm. blade

Footnotes

For a related sword in Brown University, Rhode Island, see Cyril Mazansky, British Basket-Hilted Swords, 2005, p. 226, VIIE3 (illustrated)

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