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A Rare English Basket-Hilted Backsword
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A Rare English Basket-Hilted Backsword

CIRCA 1560

細節
A Rare English Basket-Hilted Backsword
Circa 1560
With straight blade (tip missing), iron hilt of slender bars of circular section involving two small incised rectangular plates, diagonally recurved quillons (one missing), large hollow pommel decorated on the upper half with a design of incised leaves, and wooden grip (heavily patinated throughout)
34½in. (87.6cm.) blade
來源
Christie's, London, 14 April 1971, lot 29 (130 gns. to Gwynn)
注意事項
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拍品專文

This is an example of a sword with one of the earliest forms of Anglo/Highland Scottish guard - known in the the 17th century as an 'Irish hilt'- from which that of the better known Scottish basket-hilted claymore developed
See Blair 1981(i), passim
A very similar sword was in the collection of Claude Blair (see Wallace, no. 13; Blair 1981(i), figs. 113-115), now in the Royal Armouries, Leeds (inv. no. IX.2574)