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Lot 186

An English Basket-Hilted Broadsword
Mid-17th Century

27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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An English Basket-Hilted Broadsword
Mid-17th Century

With tapering double-edged blade (some rust patination overall) stamped 'SAHAGOM' within the narrow central fuller over each side of the forte, russet 'Irish' guard of rounded bars framing a saltire on each side incised with pairs of lines forming a cross, incised 'bow-tie' side-guards, slender fore-guards, later scrolled wrist-guard, fluted bun-shaped pommel, spirally-grooved fish skin-covered grip, and remains of leather liner, in its wood-lined tooled leather scabbard (old damage and repairs) with iron chape
74 cm. blade

Footnotes

For a very similar hilt in Blair Castle, Perthshire see Cyril Mazansky, British Basket-Hilted Swords..., 2005, p.82, fig. D10b

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