A SCOTTISH BASKET-HILTED BACKSWORD with straight tapering blade double-edged towards the point (some pitting) and with wide central fuller and narrow fuller along the back on each face below the forte, characteristic iron hilt of flat bars decorated with keyhole and heart-shaped piercings, bun-shaped pommel, and spirally fluted leather-covered wire-bound grip, late 18th Century

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A SCOTTISH BASKET-HILTED BACKSWORD with straight tapering blade double-edged towards the point (some pitting) and with wide central fuller and narrow fuller along the back on each face below the forte, characteristic iron hilt of flat bars decorated with keyhole and heart-shaped piercings, bun-shaped pommel, and spirally fluted leather-covered wire-bound grip, late 18th Century
38¾in. blade

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