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Lot 1001
A 17TH CENTURY PORTUGUESE SWEPT HILT BROADSWORD.
3 – 13 August 2025, 12:00 EDT
Online, Skinner Marlborough, MassachusettsSold for US$6,462.50 inc. premium
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A 17TH CENTURY PORTUGUESE SWEPT HILT BROADSWORD.
The hilt with beaded guard, quillons and pommel, plain wood grip; straight double-edge blade with traces of cutler marks on the ricasso.
Overall lg. 42 1/2 in.
Overall lg. 42 1/2 in.
Footnotes
Literature
Sword is illustrated and described in Rodney Hilton Brown, Treasures of the Caribbean (Fairhaven, MA: The War Museum Press, 2023), p. 286.




