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Lot 96

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

25 November 2015, 14:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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An English 'Mortuary' Hilted Backsword
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

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