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A Scottish Basket-Hilted Broadsword
Early 18th Century

Antique Arms and Armour
28 July 2010, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Scottish Basket-Hilted Broadsword
Early 18th Century

With broad tapering double-edged blade incised with indistinct Solingen maker's name over each side of the forte between stamped maker's marks each in the form of the Temptation, mostly within double line borders and including a running wolf mark on one side, iron guard of line engraved slender bars of rectangular section involving fretted panels pierced with circles and rectangles, the side panels each with 'rams's horn' terminal, fore-guards, conical pommel cut with flutes between lines, and original spirally-grooved fishskin-covered grip retaining the remains of a silk tassel beneath the pommel and leather liner (some pitting overall)
85.5 cm. blade

Footnotes

For a sword with a similar hilt in the West Highland Museum, Fort William (no. 901) see Cyril Mazansky, British Basket-Hilted Swords, 2005, p. 108, F13b (illustrated)

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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
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A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century
A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later
FOUR REPRODUCTION CARVED POWDER HORNS/FLASKS.late 20th century.
THREE CARVED COCONUT ITEMS.18th/19th century.
A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.
THREE VICTORIAN ARMS AND ARMOUR DECORATIVE ITEMS.