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Lot 103
An English Basket-Hilted BackswordEarly 18th Century
30 November 2016, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge£1,500 - £1,800
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Find your local specialistAn English Basket-Hilted Backsword
Early 18th Century
Early 18th Century
With tapering double-edged blade with shallow central fuller over each face of the forte, 'Irish' guard of flattened ovoidal bars joined at the top and involving a saltire on each side, the bar at the front screwed to the pommel, fore-guards, large globular pommel with prominent button, and original wooden grip (minor worming) bound with slender twisted brass wire (loose) between Turk's heads (old surface rust and pitting overall)
88 cm. blade
88 cm. blade
Footnotes
See Claude Blair, 'The Early Basket-Hilt in Britain' in D.H. Caldwell (ed.), Scottish Weapons & Fortifications 1100-1800, 1981, pp. 153-252; and for three other examples see Bonhams, Leeds, Branton Court House Sale, Part II, 6 August 2002, lots 319-321








