A SCOTTISH BASKET-HILTED BROADSWORD with broad double-edged blade of flattened oval section struck with a leaf-shaped mark on one face, iron guard of characteristic form made of fluted flat bars involving panels pierced with triangles and circles and an oval aperture, domed fluted pommel, and spirally grooved shagreen-covered grip bound with brass wire, early 18th Century

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A SCOTTISH BASKET-HILTED BROADSWORD with broad double-edged blade of flattened oval section struck with a leaf-shaped mark on one face, iron guard of characteristic form made of fluted flat bars involving panels pierced with triangles and circles and an oval aperture, domed fluted pommel, and spirally grooved shagreen-covered grip bound with brass wire, early 18th Century
37in. blade

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