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Lot 206

An Unusual Composite Basket-Hilted Backsword
Second Quarter Of The 18th Century, Probably English

29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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An Unusual Composite Basket-Hilted Backsword
Second Quarter Of The 18th Century, Probably English

With bright tapering blade double-edged towards the shortened point and cut with a fuller along the back for most of its length on each side, iron guard of slender rounded and scrolled bars framing, at the front, two S-shaped bars each set sideways, fore-guards, fluted bun-shaped pommel with separate button, and grip wrapped in blackened cloth, in wooden scabbard covered in blackened cloth
67.7 cm. blade

Footnotes

Four other examples of this type of hilt are recorded, one in the Royal Armouries, Leeds (IX.3613), one in the Snodgrass Collection, one in the Palace of Holyroodhouse and another in Boughton House, Northamptonshire. See Cyril Mazansky, British Basket-Hilted Swords, 2005, pp. 84-85, D13

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