Price: £6,450

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This solid, fine quality and attractive basket hilted sword is a good representative example of the Scottish armourers' craft at work in first quarter of the 18th Century. The basket is well-fashioned from thicker than usual iron resulting in a robust hilt, made by an experienced smith, used to working with...

Price: £4,650

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A good Scottish basket hilted broadsword from the second quarter of the 18th century. The fully developed hilt consists of boldly made rounded bars and flattened well-formed guard plates pierced with triangles, circles and engraved with  line decoration. The plates are cut with fretted edges...

Price: £3,750

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A good Scottish basket hilted backsword dating to the second quarter of the 18th century with the scarce feature of "wrigglework" visible on the main guard panels. The sword is of robust proportions and in tight condition.

The fully formed...

Price: £2,850

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A Scottish basket hilted backsword dating to the second quarter of the 18th century. This is a good sized and imposing piece with a large basket and heavy blade. The fully formed basket is pierced with triangles, circles and is engraved with angular border line decoration to the main front and side guard...

Price: £2,550

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A good Scottish basket hilted backsword from the second quarter of the 18th century. The fully formed basket is of bold manufacture and pierced with hearts, circles and engraved with angular border line decoration to the main front and side panel guards. The basket is built from well formed bars and the guard...

Price: £5,250

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A handsome and fine quality Scottish basket hilted broadsword of "S Bar" form, of pleasing proportions, well balanced and in fine uncleaned condition, dating to the late 17th or early18th century. The sword has survived in original condition with a deep and untouched dark burgundy coloured patina...

Price: 5,500

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A bold Scottish basket hilted broad sword dating to the first half of the 18th century in fine robust condition.

The high quality broad double edged blade is of lenticuler section and tapers gently to its rouned tip in "Highland" manner and is just just under 34.5 inches long . The...

Price: £3,450

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A Scottish basket hilted broadsword dating to the middle of the 17th century. The basket is of early form made up of robust bars and small central panels to the front and butterfly shaped guards to the sides. It closely resembles the baskets of a number of swords illustrated in "British Basket-Hilted Swords"...

Price: £5,550

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An attractive Scottish basket-hilted sword dating to the end of the first quarter of the 18th century. The form and construction of the hilt is very similar to some made by John Allan of Stirling, one of which is illustrated in a paper published in the Spring 2018 edition of the London Park Lane...

A Fine Scottish Officer's Backsword circa 1750 Ref: 10.45

Price: £4,250

A particularly fine example of a horseman's backsword made for an officer in a North British regiment of dragoons in the middle of the 18th century. The form of decoration emulates the style developed earlier in the century by the Glasgow sword makers...

Price: £2,850

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A Scottish basket hilted broadsword in unusually attractive and original condition. The sword is published in the 2015 Park Lane Arms Fair Catalogue in a paper entitled "Notes on the dating of early Glasgow Style Scottish Basket-Hilted Swords".

The basket is of early form made up of robust...

Price: £3,975

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An interesting and bold Scottish Basket Hilted Broadsword dating to the second quarter of the 18th century. The earlier 17th century double-edged blade is marked in the central fuller either side with the talismanic date "1666" and the typical running wolf of Solingen armourers mark...

Price: £6,250

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This attractive basket hilt consists of flattened guard bars of rectangular section decorated in typical "Glasgow" style with longitudinal flutes consisting of finely executed shallow filed grooves along the centre of each bar. The main and secondary guard panels are filed with delicate frets and merlons to the...

Price: £5,950

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An attractive Scottish "West Highland Ribbon Hilted", sometimes called "Beaked Neb", broadsword dating to the middle or third quarter of the 17th century in good original condition. These swords are usually associated with Highlanders in the Civil War, Covenanting and early Jacobite periods in Scotland.

Price: £6,500

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A fine Scottish West Highland Ribbon Hilt, sometimes called "Beaked Neb", broadsword dating to the broad middle to late periods the 17th century. These swords are often associated with Scottish Highlanders in the Civil War, Covenanting and early Jacobite periods in Scotland. The sword has a...

Price: £3,775

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A good English basket hilted cavalry sword of the early 17th century. The sword is a rare transitional form in which the earliest basket hilt designs of the later 16th century are recognisable, plus the features which were to further evolve into the fully developed British basket hilted swords of the late 17th...

Price: £2,925

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A fine example of a British Basket Hilted Back Sword of Horseman type almost certainly manufactured for a British Regiment of Dragoons in the middle of the 18th century. The basket hilt is particularly sturdy and well constructed from thick metal which despite its age is in excellent condition.

The long heavy 36 inch...

Price:  £3,150

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A good English "Mortuary" hilted back sword dating to the middle part of the 17th century. The workmanship is a fine example of the English Civil War period armourers craft. The hilt is of typical form consisting of a broad boldly manufactured dish-shaped guard plate from which three main guard bars...

Price: £3,150

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English "Mortuary" hilted back sword dating to the middle part of the 17th century. The workmanship is a good example of the English Civil War period armourers craft. The hilt is of typical form consisting of a broad boldly manufactured dish-shaped guard plate from which three main guard bars extend...

Price: £1,275

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An early 18th century English silver hilted small sword. The makers mark applied to the pommel button is IR, most likely for Joseph Reason, a free cutler and hilt maker working in Burleigh Street, The Strand, London, who had two silversmith's marks recorded in 1697 and 1720. This mark, now worn at the base, seems to be...

Price: £7,750

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A stunning Scottish basket hilted backsword dating to circa 1720. The sword is of robust well-balanced proportions with a strong well-made hilt mounted with a powerful blade. The blade is of earlier 17th century manufacture and is particularly imposing - broad, heavy and in tune with the hilt.

Price: £2,750

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A remarkable 18th century English silver hilted small sword in good condition with hallmarks for London 1764/5. The maker is William Kinman, one of the foremost makers of silver hilted swords in London in the 18th century, and whose work represents the highest standards of English craftsmanship....

Price £2,850

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A good English "Mortuary" hilted back sword dating to the middle part of the 17th century. The main guard plate is covered with chiselled decoration to the outside consisting of foliage and scrolls plus typically two images of a face commonly thought on these sword hilts to represent the head of...

Price: £2,850

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A good English "Mortuary" back sword dating to the middle part of the 17th century. The main guard plate is delicately decorated with incised and pierced foliage and scrolls plus typically four images of a face commonly thought to represent the head of King Charles I. The...

Price £2,850

Item Description:

A good English "Mortuary" hilted back sword dating to the middle part of the 17th century. The main guard plate is covered with chiselled decoration to the outside consisting of foliage and scrolls plus typically two images of a face commonly thought on these sword hilts to represent the head of King Charles I. The...

Price £3,950

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A fine English duelling rapier mounted with a chiselled steel hilt of superb execution dating to circa 1620 to 1645. The shallow dish guard is formed on the convex surface with five concentric circular bands of different design. The first is a central solid roundel through which the tang passes and...

Price: £2,350

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A superior 18th century English silver hilted small sword in fine condition with hallmarks for London dating to 1754. The makers mark is comprised of the letters JR for John Radborn. The sword with its delicate hand-pierced workmanship represents the highest quality of silver hilted sword making in...

Price: £2,650

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An attractive and rare, late 17th century English silver-mounted hanger, in good, crisp and uncleaned condition. The knucklebow is clearly struck twice with the pre-Britannia standard (pre 1697) maker's mark of Thomas Vicaridge, "TV"with a crown above and a pellet below inside a shield. Only a few surviving swords...

Price: £1,350

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An attractive and functional late 17th century brass hilted English Officers sword mounted with a fine quality German blade. The hilt is formed with two moulded shell guards infilled with shallow brass plates with attractive foliate rosettes centred on the tang aperture on both upper and lower...

Price: £1,775

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A fine 18th century English silver hilted small sword with hallmarks for London dating to 1761. The makers mark on the knuckle bow, alongside the other stamps, is comprised of the letters J R for John Radborn.

The delicate workmanship to the hilt represents the highest quality of silver...

Price: £2,395

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A very scarce Scottish Infantry Officer's three quarter basket hilted broad sword dating to the middle of the 18th century.

This rare sword type was probably developed as a result of the Duke of Cumberland's review of his army in the mid 18th century where he made known his...

Price: £2,650

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An attractive and rare, late 17th century English silver-mounted hunting sword by Thomas Vicaridge of London, with scabbard, in good, crisp condition. Only a few surviving swords signed by this maker are known and all are of high...

Price: £2,150

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A superior 18th century English silver hilted small sword in overall good condition with hallmarks for London 1756 and a makers mark comprised of the letters "I B" inside a shield which are probably for John Bennett (I or II) - both 18th century silver hilted swordmakers based in Threadneedle Street in the City of...

Price: £1,525

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A rare variant of the Pre-Regulation British Cavalry Troopers basket-hilted sword of the mid to third quarter of the 18th century.

Typically the sword is mounted with a bun shaped-pommel with integral pommel button at the top and a pommel ring at its base.  The basket is formed at the...