A SCOTTISH BASKET-HILTED REGULATION BROADSWORD, the blade with narrow central fuller on each face of the forte stamped 'Andrea Ferara', the steel hilt of thin bars framing panels with heart-shaped piercings, fluted mushroom-shaped pommel with prominent pierced button, and spirally grooved shagreen-covered wooden grip (wire binding missing), the guard with original buff-leather lining faced with red cloth and silk pommel tassel, in original steel-mounted leather scabbard, second quarter of the 19th Century, the blade 17th Century

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A SCOTTISH BASKET-HILTED REGULATION BROADSWORD, the blade with narrow central fuller on each face of the forte stamped 'Andrea Ferara', the steel hilt of thin bars framing panels with heart-shaped piercings, fluted mushroom-shaped pommel with prominent pierced button, and spirally grooved shagreen-covered wooden grip (wire binding missing), the guard with original buff-leather lining faced with red cloth and silk pommel tassel, in original steel-mounted leather scabbard, second quarter of the 19th Century, the blade 17th Century
34¼in. blade

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The pattern introduced for Highland regiments in 1828

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