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A Rare Scottish Basket-Hilted Backsword In The Manner Of Walter Allan Of Sterling
Second Quarter Of The 18th Century

24 May 2023, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare Scottish Basket-Hilted Backsword In The Manner Of Walter Allan Of Sterling
Second Quarter Of The 18th Century

With tapering blade double-edged at the point and cut with two fullers along the back over most of its length on each side incised respectively 'ANDREA' and 'FARARA' between star and 'S' marks, the forte on one side stamped with Blackamoor's profile head mark probably of Andreis Munsten (Weyersberg 86), iron guard of waved bars of rectangular section framing a row of pierced stars between rows of alternate oval and keyhole-shaped piercings at the front, three pierced hearts between cusping above, the side panels each pierced en suite above a stylised 'ram's horn' pierced with a further heart between, waved fore-guards and rear guard, scrolled wrist-guard, integral ring at the top beneath the fluted bun-shaped pommel, the latter with separate button, spirally-grooved fishskin-covered grip with embossed iron ferrule at the top, and retaining its buff-leather lined faced in red woollen cloth
86.9 cm. blade

Footnotes

Exhibited
The Swords and the Sorrows, Culloden Commemorative Exhibition, Culloden, 16 April-20 September 1996

Literature
The Swords and the Sorrows, exhibition catalogue, cat. no. 1:39, p. 42 (illustrated)

For related examples see Cyril Mazansky, British Basket-Hilted Swords, 2005, pp. 152-156, G9-G11

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