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A Rare Scottish Basket-Hilted Broadsword
Last Quarter Of The 17th Century

28 July 2010, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare Scottish Basket-Hilted Broadsword
Last Quarter Of The 17th Century

With broad tapering double-edged blade cut with double fullers between incised lines over each side of the forte, iron 'ribbon' guard of broad flat bars forming irregular openings, rear guard of slender bars, rudimentary hooked fore-quillon, compressed globular pommel with flat rounded button, and later spirally-grooved leather-covered grip bound with twisted iron wire (pitted overall)
81.8 cm. blade

Footnotes

For a sword with a very similar hilt in the York Castle Museum (CA728) see Cyril Mazansky, British Basket-Hilted Swords, 2005, p. 69, C1 (illustrated)

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