Name: Auction: SCOTTISH BASKET HILTED HORSEMAN'S BACK SWORD CIRCA 1770
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 1800 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Day One: 14 March 2012 From 10am

Day Two: 15 March 2012 From 10am

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the military hilt of flat section iron with shaped hand guard of lozenge shaped plates (oval at side of guard area and wrist guard missing) with original buff leather liner covered with crimson felt, bun shaped pommel with ray skin grip bound with a treble twist of copper wire with Turks heads, the single edge blade with two long fullers 31 ½ inch (80cm) blade Note:This sword is by family tradition the sword of Major Hamilton Blair, 23rd Laird. A similar sword is depicted in the portrait of Colonel William Gordon of Fyvie by Pompeo Batoni (1708 -1787) at Fyvie Castle, Aberdeenshire.

CIRCA 1770

SCOTTISH BASKET HILTED HORSEMAN'S BACK SWORD

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SCOTTISH BASKET HILTED HORSEMAN'S BACK SWORD

CIRCA 1770

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