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Lot 113*
A Scottish Basket-Hilted BackswordSecond Quarter Of The 18th Century
23 July 2015, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,750 inc. premium
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Second Quarter Of The 18th Century
Second Quarter Of The 18th Century
With tapering blade double-edged towards the point and cut with two almost full-length fullers along the back edge on each side, short ricasso, iron guard (some wear) of slender bars of rectangular section framing fretted panels incised with lines and pierced with circular holes and stylised hearts, the main panels centred on saltires, the side panels each set above a 'ram's horn', a pair of fore-guards, bun-shaped pommel cut with three sets of parallel lines, and spirally-grooved wooden grip (cracked and chipped)
78.5 cm. blade
78.5 cm. blade
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Provenance
The Estate of John M. Kauffmann, Maine, U.S.A.








