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Lot 164

An English 'Mortuary' Hilted Backsword
Mid-17th Century

30 April 2014, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,875 inc. premium

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An English 'Mortuary' Hilted Backsword
Mid-17th Century

With broad tapering hollowed blade double-edged at the point, iron hilt of similar form to the last, the guard chiselled with a cavalryman and three portrait busts almost certainly representing Charles I, all against a pierced ground, the knuckle-guard screwed to the pommel and connected by two bifurcated side-bars by double scrolled bars, globular pommel chiselled en suite with the guard, and grip with iron wire binding between Turk's heads (pitted overall)
87 cm. blade

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