Lot 417

A MID-18TH CENTURY BASKET HILTED SWORD





Scottish Works of Art & Whisky
Auction: 17 August 2022 at 11:00 BST
Description
the basket with flat panels pierced with heart and roundell decoration with flattened rounded bars and horseman's loop, the wooden grip and leather liner, the double fullered blade with rounded tip, in leather scabbard
Dimensions
blade 92cm long, overall length 110cm
Provenance
Provenance
Miss Bell MacPhail
Mr MacPhail, Montrose
John Kinnear, Montrose, inherited from his father
Sir William Fraser
Sheriff JRN MacPhail, bought 1898
JGS MacPhail
By family descent
Footnote
Notes
The long provenance in the attached label, likely circa 1900, details the above lineage of the sword. It further states that the father of Miss Bell MacPhail fought with this sword on the side of Prince Charles and ‘killed several of Argyll’s party with this sword’




