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Lot 152

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, Knightsbridge

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A Basket-Hilted Broadsword Of The 42nd Royal Highland Regiment (The Black Watch)
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

Footnotes

See Anthony D. Darling, 'Weapons Of The Highland Regiments 1740-1780', Historical Arms Series, no. 33, 1995, p. 17

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