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A Basket-Hilted Backsword Of The 42nd Royal Highland Regiment (The Black Watch)Third Quarter Of The 18th Century
22 April 2009, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,920 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Basket-Hilted Backsword Of The 42nd Royal Highland Regiment (The Black Watch)
Third Quarter Of The 18th Century
Third Quarter Of The 18th Century
With slightly tapering blade double-edged towards the point and cut with a broad fuller along the back over most of its length on each side, iron guard of flattened bars framing ovoidal panels and saltires pierced with triangles and circles, fore-guards, scrolled wrist-guard, conical pommel with rounded button, and later wooden grip (some light pitting overall)
84.2 cm. blade
84.2 cm. blade
Footnotes
See Anthony D. Darling, 'Weapons of The Highland Regiments 1740-1780', Historical Arms Series, No. 33, 1995, p. 17








