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Lot 69

A Scottish Officer's Basket-Hilted Backsword
By Samuel 1 Harvey Of Birmingham, Dated 1761

30 November 2016, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Scottish Officer's Basket-Hilted Backsword
By Samuel 1 Harvey Of Birmingham, Dated 1761

With tapering blade double-edged towards the point and fullered over its entire length on each side with a narrow fuller bordering it along the back, the forte incised with crowned 'GR' monogram on both sides, one side above 'Harvey' and above the date '1761' on the other, iron guard of fluted bars of rectangular section (one with an old minor repair) framing fluted panels with fretted borders and pierced with stylised hearts and circles, the side panels each with 'ram's horn' pierced with a stylised heart, and with an oval aperture for the reins, fore-guards, scrolled wrist-guard, bun-shaped pommel with characteristic fluting and large button, and spirally-grooved fish skin-covered grip bound with two thicknesses of twisted brass wire between Turk's heads
98.1 cm. blade

Footnotes

Samuel (1) Harvey of Birmingham is recorded at Moor Street or Mole Street in about 1748, and later at 74 High Street between 1767 and 1778

Cf. a related sword sold in these Rooms, Fine Antique Arms and Armour..., 24 November 2010, lot 75

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