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Lot 118*

A Scottish Basket-Hilted Backsword
Third Quarter Of The 18th Century

23 July 2015, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Scottish Basket-Hilted Backsword
Third Quarter Of The 18th Century

With tapering blade double-edged towards the point and cut along the back edge on each side with two narrow almost full-length fullers incised 'Andria/Ferara' between punched dots arranged in triangles on each face of the forte, iron guard finely formed of slender fluted bars of rectangular section involving shaped fretted panels pierced with circular holes and stylised hearts, the main panels of cusped oval form centred on curved saltires, shaped central and side panels incised with parallel lines, the latter each set above a 'ram's horn', fore-guards, scrolled wrist-guard, fluted bun-shaped pommel with turned button, and original fishskin-covered wooden grip set between iron collars and spirally bound with a copper ribbon
81.5 cm. blade

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Provenance
The Estate of John M. Kauffmann, Maine, U.S.A.

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