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A Rare English Or Lowland Scottish Basket-Hilted Broadsword
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A Rare English Or Lowland Scottish Basket-Hilted Broadsword

LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY

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A Rare English Or Lowland Scottish Basket-Hilted Broadsword
Late 16th/early 17th Century
With tapering blade of flattened hexagonal section (front edge nicked) stamped with designs of running foliage within the single fuller on each side of the forte, iron guard of slender flat bars involving solid plates decorated with piercings, single upturned quillon at the front, flat disc-shaped pommel with prominent button, and leather-covered grip (the semi-circular bar at the top of the guard now soldered to the pommel and lacking a small section)
35¼in. (89.6cm.) blade
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Lot Essay

For a discussion of guards of this type see Claude Blair, 'The Early Basket-Hilt in Britain', Scottish Weapons and Fortifications 1100-1800, D.H. Caldwell (ed.), Edinburgh, 1981, pp. 221-227, figs. 124-5 and 128; G.M. Wilson, 'Notes on Some Early Basket-Hilted Swords', J.A.A.S., vol. XII, no. 1 (March 1986), pp. 10-12, plates VII, VIII

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