A MID-18TH CENTURY BASKET HILTED SWORD
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A MID-18TH CENTURY BASKET HILTED SWORD 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
(blade92cm long, overall length 110cm)
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
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’
(blade92cm long, overall length 110cm)
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
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’
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A MID-18TH CENTURY BASKET HILTED SWORD
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