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A Scottish Officer's Basket-Hilted BackswordCirca 1770
1 December 2009, 14:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £3,120 inc. premium
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Circa 1770
Circa 1770
With single-edged blade double-edged towards the point and cut with two narrow fullers along the back edge for most of its length on each side, the forte etched on both sides with flowering foliage above 'Andrea Farara', 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 piercing, fore-guards, wide downscrolled wrist-guard, gadrooned conical pommel with prominent button, spirally-grooved fishskin-covered grip bound with twisted wire, and retaining its buff leather liner faced with red woollen cloth
86.9 cm. blade
86.9 cm. blade
Footnotes
For an almost identical hilt on a sword in the Royal Armouries, Leeds (IX. 831) see Cyril Mazansky, British Basket-Hilted Swords, 2005, p. 147, G7 (illustrated)




