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1798 Pattern Scottish Highland Infantry Officers SWORD with Gilt Copper Hilt

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1798 Pattern Scottish Highland Infantry Officers SWORD with Gilt Copper Hilt

There is a RESERVE of $800 on this Antique Sword..

An example of the distinctive basket hilted sword introduced for Scottish Infantry
officers in Highland Regiments in 1798.
Backsword single edged blade is a much older family blade and has been blackened
in keeping with known examples of Church armour..

This type of sword had basket replaced by the regulation steel basket hilt 1828 pattern three decades later.
The sword type was used throughout the Napoleonic War period.

This sword has errosion of the blade from 227 Years of exposure - The double-edged
gently tapering blade is 32.75 inches (83 cm) long.
Typically it is of lenticular section with a short ricasso. A central fuller commences a
short distance from the hilt on each side and is 8 inches (20 cm) long.
The blade is unmarked and probably a German import which was the norm for this
sword type and most probably of Solingen manufacture.

The hilts of these swords were most usually made of gilt copper, bronze or brass.

The grip is of spirally grooved wood that was usuallycovered with shagreen held in
place with thin ropes of twisted copper wire. This sword has only the woodedn grip.
as shown in pictures.
It is mounted with gilt bronze ferrules top and bottom which are incised with
decorative lines.