AN ENGLISH BASKET-HILTED BACKSWORD, the straight single-edged blade with two narrow fullers on each face, one bordering the back for most of its length, and the other following this in the central section only, struck on each face with crescent moon marks, iron hilt of 'mortuary' type composed of flat bars and a hand-guard chiselled in low relief with foliated scrolls, a male mask and monster's heads, globular pommel chiselled with foliage, and wire-bound wooden grip (binding defective), mid-17th Century | Christie's

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AN ENGLISH BASKET-HILTED BACKSWORD, the straight single-edged blade with two narrow fullers on each face, one bordering the back for most of its length, and the other following this in the central section only, struck on each face with crescent moon marks, iron hilt of 'mortuary' type composed of flat bars and a hand-guard chiselled in low relief with foliated scrolls, a male mask and monster's heads, globular pommel chiselled with foliage, and wire-bound wooden grip (binding defective), mid-17th Century

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AN ENGLISH BASKET-HILTED BACKSWORD, the straight single-edged blade with two narrow fullers on each face, one bordering the back for most of its length, and the other following this in the central section only, struck on each face with crescent moon marks, iron hilt of 'mortuary' type composed of flat bars and a hand-guard chiselled in low relief with foliated scrolls, a male mask and monster's heads, globular pommel chiselled with foliage, and wire-bound wooden grip (binding defective), mid-17th Century
32in. blade