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A RARE OFFICER'S BRASS BASKET-HILTED SWORD
MID-LATE 18TH CENTURY

The Scottish Sale
14 – 15 October 2021, 14:00 BST
Edinburgh

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A RARE OFFICER'S BRASS BASKET-HILTED SWORD
MID-LATE 18TH CENTURY

With tapering double-edged blade (some pitting overall) cut with a pair of narrow fullers along each side beyond the forte, the latter pierced with a small central hole, elaborate brass guard of slender bars forming open ovoidal panels (minor breaks) filled by triple cusped bars, and joined at the top by a ring beneath the pommel, globular brass pommel with three medial lines and flattened button, and old spirally-grooved leather-covered grip (old split) bound with a strand of twisted wire.
89.5cm blade

Footnotes

For an account of basket hilts of this type, some of which can be identified in portraits of 18th century Scottish officers, including 'The Pinch of Snuff' attributed to William Delacour, see John Wallace, Scottish Swords and Dirks, 1970, no. 44; and for similar examples see Cyril Mazansky, British Basket-Hilted Swords, 2005, p. 174.

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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons
A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century
A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later
FOUR REPRODUCTION CARVED POWDER HORNS/FLASKS.late 20th century.
THREE CARVED COCONUT ITEMS.18th/19th century.
A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.
THREE VICTORIAN ARMS AND ARMOUR DECORATIVE ITEMS.