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Lot 154
A Scottish Basket-Hilted Broadsword In The Manner Of John Simpson The Younger Of GlasgowEarly 18th Century
23 May 2018, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £5,000 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Scottish Basket-Hilted Broadsword In The Manner Of John Simpson The Younger Of Glasgow
Early 18th Century
Early 18th Century
With broad tapering double-edged blade with short fuller on each side of the forte incised 'IXIX' and with a running fox mark beyond, iron hilt of rounded bars involving fretted rectangular and ovoidal panels pierced with circles and trefoils within fluted and line borders, the side panels each with 'ram's horn' terminal, fore-guards, scrolled wrist-guard originally with a side-bar joined to the back of the basket on each side, fluted conical pommel, and spirally-grooved fish-skin covered grip bound with twisted brass wire between brass Turk's head (some rust patination)
81 cm. blade
81 cm. blade
Footnotes
A related sword is in the Marischal Museum, University of Aberdeen (inv. no. ABDUA: 10012 HGC56). See Cyril Mazansky, British Basket-Hilted Swords, 2005, p.113, fig. F15c








