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Lot 173

A Scottish Basket-Hilted Broadsword
Early 18th Century

30 April 2014, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Scottish Basket-Hilted Broadsword
Early 18th Century

With tapering double-edged blade (some pitting overall) with double central fuller over each side of the forte extending into the ricasso, russet iron hilt of slender rounded bars framing fretted panels incised with lines and pierced with stylised hearts and circles, the main panels centred on saltires, the side-bars each framing an S-shaped bar set at an angle above a 'ram's horn' each pierced with a stylised heart, fore-guards, compressed conical pommel decorated with flutes between incised lines, spirally-grooved fishskin-covered grip bound with a strand of twisted copper wire, and remains of original buff-leather liner
81.4 cm. blade

Footnotes

For a related sword of which similar examples are in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow and at Blair Castle, Perthshire, see Cyril Mazansky, British Basket-Hilted Swords, 2005, p. 88, E4 (illustrated)

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