A SCOTTISH BASKET-HILTED BACKSWORD, the broad blade (tip broken off) with three narrow fullers, changing to two near the point, for almost the whole length of each face, the iron hilt of narrow bars and large wide panels, the latter with cusped borders and pierced with small circular holes, fluted domed pommel, and spirally grooved wooden grip (binding missing, back-guard replaced), early 18th Century

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A SCOTTISH BASKET-HILTED BACKSWORD, the broad blade (tip broken off) with three narrow fullers, changing to two near the point, for almost the whole length of each face, the iron hilt of narrow bars and large wide panels, the latter with cusped borders and pierced with small circular holes, fluted domed pommel, and spirally grooved wooden grip (binding missing, back-guard replaced), early 18th Century
35¼in. blade

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