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A Basket-Hilted Broadsword Of The 42nd Royal Highland Regiment (The Black Watch)Third Quarter OF The 18th Century
23 May 2018, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £812.50 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Basket-Hilted Broadsword Of The 42nd Royal Highland Regiment (The Black Watch)
Third Quarter OF The 18th Century
Third Quarter OF The 18th Century
With tapering blade fullered along the back for most of its length on each side, iron guard of flattened bars framing ovoidal panels and saltires pierced with triangles and circles, fore-guards, scrolled wrist-guard, conical pommel, and cord-bound leather-wrapped wooden grip (pitted overall)
75.3 cm. blade
75.3 cm. blade
Footnotes
See Anthony D. Darling, 'Weapons Of The Highland Regiments 1740-1780', Historical Arms Series, no. 33, 1995, p. 17








