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Lot 96
An English 'Mortuary' Hilted BackswordMid-17th Century
25 November 2015, 14:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,875 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistAn English 'Mortuary' Hilted Backsword
Mid-17th Century
Mid-17th Century
With tapering blade cut with two fullers along the back over nearly its entire length to the double-edged point, the fullers on both sides of the forte retaining faint traces of stamped inscriptions, iron hilt comprising solid guard chiselled with pairs of scallop shells and foliage involving a male head on each side, all against a punched ground, tapering knuckle-guard connected to two slender bifurcated bars on each side and screwed to the pommel, rear side-bars linked to the wrist-guard, globular pommel chiselled with foliage and with button finial, and original spirally grooved wooden grip (some worming) bound with twisted brass wire (incomplete, some pitting overall)
86.9 cm. blade
86.9 cm. blade








