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

Antique Arms and Armour
30 November 2016, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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

With tapering blade double-edged at the point and cut with a shallow fuller at the forte becoming a double fuller along the back over most of its length on each side, iron hilt comprising solid guard chiselled with two male busts and foliage, the latter against a punched ground, short scrolled wrist-guard, knuckle-guard flanked by two diagonal bars to bifurcated side-bars partly chiselled with foliage, the top of the knuckle-guard and side-bars (one incomplete at the top) screwed to the roughly chiselled globular pommel, and later turned wooden grip (pitting overall)
77.5 cm. blade

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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons
A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century
A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later
FOUR REPRODUCTION CARVED POWDER HORNS/FLASKS.late 20th century.
THREE CARVED COCONUT ITEMS.18th/19th century.
A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.
THREE VICTORIAN ARMS AND ARMOUR DECORATIVE ITEMS.