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Lot 117*
A Scottish Basket-Hilted BroadswordThird Quarter Of The 18th Century
23 July 2015, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,250 inc. premium
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Third Quarter Of The 18th Century
Third Quarter Of The 18th Century
With earlier flattened tapering blade (surface pitted) with two short fullers on each side of the forte, and an orb and cross mark beyond, and struck on each face at the base of the guard with a small mark similar to that on rapier A604 in the Wallace Collection, large iron hilt incorporating an oval for the reins and composed mainly of flattened bars of rectangular section framing panels incised with lines, stamped with concentric circles, and pierced with circles and stylised hearts, the side-panels each above a 'ram's horn', a pair of fore-guards, prominent scrolled wrist-guard, conical pommel cut with four flutes bordered by double lines and with compressed button, and spirally fluted fishskin-covered grip
86.5 cm. blade
86.5 cm. blade
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Provenance
The Estate of John M. Kauffmann, Maine, U.S.A.








