拍品 157
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A SCOTTISH INFANTRY SERGEANT'S BASKET-HILTED BROADSWORD
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A SCOTTISH INFANTRY SERGEANT'S BASKET-HILTED BROADSWORD

CIRCA 1800

细节
A SCOTTISH INFANTRY SERGEANT'S BASKET-HILTED BROADSWORD
Circa 1800
With tapering blade with short ricasso and a central fuller on each face, the gilt-brass hilt (bent) of characteristic form comprising guard of slender bars and strips framing plain panels, with fore-guards and short flat rear quillon, fluted flattened-conical pommel with button, and wooden rayskin-covered wire-bound grip (blade rust-stained, gilding mostly worn off)
32¾in. (83.2cm.) blade
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拍品专文

This is a version of the Highland Officers' 1798 pattern sword worn by Sergeants until 1830

See Brian Robson, Swords of the British Army, pp. 189-90