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EARLY 18TH CENTURY
細節
A SCOTTISH BASKET-HILTED BROADSWORD
Early 18th Century
With tapering blade with two short fullers on each side of the forte, the ricasso stamped with "eyelash" marks, iron guard (loose) of slender bars involving 'S's' and incised fretted panels pierced with circles, fluted pommel, and spirally fluted wooden grip retaining part of its shagreen and wire binding (iron parts surface pitted)
32½in. (82.6cm.) blade
Early 18th Century
With tapering blade with two short fullers on each side of the forte, the ricasso stamped with "eyelash" marks, iron guard (loose) of slender bars involving 'S's' and incised fretted panels pierced with circles, fluted pommel, and spirally fluted wooden grip retaining part of its shagreen and wire binding (iron parts surface pitted)
32½in. (82.6cm.) blade
來源
Captain Robert de Cardonell Findlay of Easter Hill, Lanarkshire, a sword collector who was killed in action at the beginning of World War I, Christie's, Blairquhan, 25 November 1983, lot 58
注意事項
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.