A SCOTTISH MILITARY BASKET-HILTED BROADSWORD with tapering blade, the hilt, retaining its original red velvet-covered buff-leather lining, of slender bars forming panels framing small pierced lozenges between horizontal cross-bars, large scrolled back-guard, bun-shaped pommel with prominent button, and spirally-grooved shagreen-covered grip bound with twisted copper wire, with iron-mounted tooled leather scabbard (incomplete), second quarter of the 18th Century