Lot 133

Scottish basket hilted back sword circa 1720






Jacobite, Stuart, and Scottish Applied Arts
Auction: 13 May 2015 at 12:00 BST
£4,000
Description
the guard of round section bars, the side and forward guards pierced with two apertures above pierced shields, small scrolled wrist guard, replacement chequered wooden grip with turned collar, bun shaped pommel cut with lines at each join of the saltire bars the single edge Anti Union German blade etched with St Andrew holding a saltire above PROSPERITY TO SCHOTALAND AND NO UNION on the reverse GOD SAVE KING JAMES8 (all rubbed) with a laurelled male bust and a crown and scepter on a cushion
Dimensions
blade 86.5cm (34 inches) long
Footnote
Note:
Page 35 Swords and Sorrows Catalogue 1996 no.1: 26 depicts an identical blade.





