A BASKET-HILTED BACKSWORD

ARMS AND ARMOUR

Details

A BASKET-HILTED BACKSWORD
POSSIBLY EARLY 18TH CENTURY
With Scottish hilt and German blade (probably Soligen)

With straight single-edged blade and a broad full-length fuller at the spine, etched to one side God Save King James Thee (No.8) and to the other With Prosperity to Schotlandt and Np Union, also etched with a male bust in profile wearing a cap with a crown over two sceptres and to the other side with Saint Andrew and his Cross, the iron hilt with fluted domed pommel and flattened bars with fluted side guards pierced with stylised hearts and circle with cut shaped edges with two plain scroll forward guards and down-scrolled quillon with wristguard, wood grip, cut with a hatched lozenge pattern
40in. (101.6cm) overall

Lot Essay

For blades with similar inscriptions see Trenchard, Page 21-24 for a basket-hilted sword with almost identical blade cf. The Swords and The Sorrows, National Trust Culloden 1996 No.1.18. From a Private Collection

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