Early Victorian Scottish BasketHilted Broadsword Cowan's Auction House The Midwest's Most
Basket-Hilted Broadsword Place Stirling (Object made in) Date Made 1740-1760 Medium Steel, iron, copper, textile, and leather Inscriptions Hilt, lower part: W.A.S. - stamped for Walter Allan of Stirling. Dimensions Overall L. 101.5 cm (39 7/8 in.) Blade L. 87 cm (34 1/4 in.) Wt. 2 lb. 14 oz. Credit Line George F. Harding Collection Reference Number
A Rare and Important Japanned Hilted Scottish BasketHilted Broadsword, First Quarter 18th
The basket-hilted broadsword, in its various iterations, gained widespread recognition as a weapon in Europe starting in the 1500s. This design marked a logical progression in the enhancement of hand protection, offering the significant advantage of reducing the need for wearing gauntlets while wielding the sword.
EARLY 17TH CENTURY ENGLISH BASKET HILTED BROAD SWORD (C 1610)! For Sale Classifieds
There is some evidence on historical fencing as practised in Scotland in the Early Modern Era, especially fencing with the Scottish basket-hilted broadsword during the 17th to 18th centuries.
Good English Basket Hilted Broadsword with Fine Runkel Solingen Blade Cowan's Auction House
The Scottish basket-hilted broadsword, commonly referred to as an "Andrea Ferrara," was a weapon of considerable significance. Its distinctive hilt design featured a basket-shaped guard that enveloped the hand, offering enhanced protection during combat. This feature became emblematic of Scottish swordsmanship and embodied the martial.
Scottish 1828 Pattern Highland Infantry Sergeants Basket Hilted Broadsword. Mole. 2207008
Our polished Basket-Hilt Broadsword, replicated from an original in the collection of the Royal Armouries in England, carries a typical Glasgow-style hilt from the mid-18th century. It is likely that the blade of the original sword, marked Andrea Ferara, was made in Germany a century earlier and re-hilted as basket designs were refined..
Basket hilted broadsword antique
This basket hilted Scottish broadsword has a blade of high carbon steel. The basket hilt is crafted from darkened, antique-finished steel and the grip is wrapped in black leather and overlaid with twisted copper wire. The wood-core scabbard is overlaid with black leather and capped with a throat and chape of antique-finished steel. The words Scot and Bravery are often used in the same sentence.
Scottish basket hilt broadsword circa about 19th century showing restoration and replacement of bl
The basket-hilted sword is the name of a group of sword types of the early modern era, characterized by a basket-shaped guard that protects the hand. The basket hilt is a development of the quillons added to swords' crossguards since the Late Middle Ages. In modern times, this variety of sword is also sometimes referred to as the broadsword.
Culloden Scottish BasketHilt Broadsword Scottish, Culloden, Basket
Description SPECIFICATIONS The Scottish basket hilt broadsword came into use in the 17th Century. The Jacobite soldier would have carried this sword in hand accompanied with a "targe" shield. Basket hilt styles were common all across Europe, the earliest styles dating back to the mid 1500s.
Scottish Basket Hilt Broadsword4H3S129B
The basket-hilted sword was a cut and thrust sword which found the most use in a military context, contrasting with the rapier, the similarly heavy, thrust-oriented sword most often worn with civilian dress which evolved from the espada ropera or spada da lato type during the same period.
Lot 141 A Scottish basket hilted broadsword circa
A Legendary Sword. This Basket-Hilt Broadsword was replicated from an original in the collection of the Royal Armouries in England. It carries a typical Glasgow style hilt from around the mid-18th century. It is likely that the blade of the original sword, marked "Andrea Ferara", was made in Germany a century earlier and re-hilted as basket.
BasketHilted Broadsword (Schiavona) The Art Institute of Chicago
Basket Hilt Broadswords Offering greater protection to the hand with their basket-shaped guards, basket hilt broadswords served as military weapons in the 16th through 18th centuries, contrasting with the slim dueling rapiers worn by civilians during the same time period.
BasketHilt Broadsword Swords Lawrance Ordnance
Cold Steel Basket Hilt Broad Sword: Cold Steels Basket Hilt Broadsword often looked like a spaceman's sword on promotional pics. Up close, it looked somewhat different - but when the crisis hit in 2010 I would dare say that the promo pic helped seal it's fate..
Scottish baskethilted Broadsword Dated late XVIII century The sword comes with a straight
The stout basket hilt is made of blued steel with a wood grip covered in ray skin and decoratively wrapped in wire. Each broadsword will pass the stringent British Proof test and comes with a wood and leather scabbard that's complemented by blued steel chape and throat. 1055 Carbon steel blade. Overall: 37 3/4". Blade: 31 1/2".
Sold Price A RARE ENGLISH 18 CENTURY BASKET HILT BROADSWORD October 6, 0119 1000 AM EDT
Description. The decoration on this sword's hilt includes an image of King Charles I of England (beheaded in 1649). Because the image resembles the king's death mask, this sword is known as a "mortuary sword." It may have belonged to Sir Thomas Fairfax, a general of the Parliamentary cavalry during the English Civil War (1642-51).
Basket hilted broadsword antique
The Swords basket hilt is made of blued steel with a wood grip covered in ray skin and wrapped in wire. Finally, the Broadsword is safely housed in a wood and leather scabbard with a blued steel chape and throat. Weight: 53oz Blade Thickness: 7/32in Blade Steel: 1055 Carbon Handle Length/Material: 6-1/4in Overall Length: 37-3/4in
Unusual Bronze Hilted Scottish Basket Hilt Broadsword Cowan's Auction House The Midwest's
The Basket-Hilt Broadsword This design offered a protective basket on the hilt of the sword in order to protect the hand carrying it.
