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A Scottish Basket-Hilted BackswordSecond Quarter Of The 18th Century
11 May 2016, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £937.50 inc. premium
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Second Quarter Of The 18th Century
Second Quarter Of The 18th Century
With tapering blade double-edged over nearly half its length to the point and fullered over its entire length on each side and with a narrow fuller bordering it along the back, iron guard of slender bars framing fretted panels incised with lines and pierced with stylised hearts and circles, the main panels (one missing) centred on saltires, the side panels each with 'ram's horn', fore-guards (one bar at the rear missing, ring beneath the pommel broken and incomplete), fluted bun-shaped pommel with prominent flat button, and spirally-fluted fishskin-covered grip with brass Turk's heads (wire binding missing, some wear and pitting overall)
95.6 cm. blade
95.6 cm. blade








