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A Basket-Hilted Backsword Of The 42nd Royal Highland Regiment (Black Watch)Third Quarter Of The 18th Century
30 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,375 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Basket-Hilted Backsword Of The 42nd Royal Highland Regiment (Black Watch)
Third Quarter Of The 18th Century
Third Quarter Of The 18th Century
With slightly tapering blade cut with a narrow fuller along the back for most of its length on each side and stamped 'Drury' beneath 'GR' on one side towards the forte, iron guard of flattened bars framing ovoidal panels and saltires pierced with triangles and circles, fore-guards, scrolled wrist-guard, conical pommel with rounded button, and later spirally-fluted swelling grip bound with twisted iron wire
81.2 cm. blade
81.2 cm. blade
Footnotes
See Anthony D. Darling, 'Weapons Of The Highland Regiments 1740-1780', Historical Arms Series, no. 33, 1995, p. 17
Cf. a very similar example sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms and Armour .., 22 April 2009, lot 115








