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A Basket-Hilted Backsword Of The 42nd Royal Highland Regiment (The Black Watch)Third Quarter Of The 18th Century
1 December 2009, 14:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,560 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 tapering single-edged blade fullered along the back for most of its length on each side, the forte struck on both sides with cutler's name 'Drury' , 'GR' crowned above, iron guard of flattened bars framing ovoidal panels and saltires pierced with triangles and circles, fore-guards, rear quillon incised 'IL', scrolled wrist-guard, conical pommel incised with vertical lines, and later spirally-grooved wooden grip (some pitting overall)
76.8 cm. blade
76.8 cm. blade
Footnotes
See Anthony D. Darling, 'Weapons of the Highland Regiments 1740-1780', Historical Arms Series, No. 33, 1995, p. 17




