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Lot 172

A Scottish Basket-Hilted Broadsword
Second Quarter Of The 18th Century

30 April 2014, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Scottish Basket-Hilted Broadsword
Second Quarter Of The 18th Century

With tapering double-edged blade with central fuller on each side at the forte pierced with keyhole slots and small circles, a copper-inlaid running wolf mark beyond on one side, and the spurious date '1515' on the other, iron guard of slender rounded bars framing an S-shaped bar set sideways on both sides above a 'ram's horn', and with fretted incised saltires either side of a fretted ovoidal panel, the former each pierced with small circular holes centred on a square, the latter fluted and pierced with triangles and holes, fluted bun-shaped pommel with separate button, and swelling wooden grip (minor worming) spirally bound with twisted copper wire (some pitting overall)
78.7 cm. blade

Footnotes

For swords with hilts of this type see Cyril Mazansky, British Basket-Hilted Swords, 2005, pp. 88-93

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