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Great Britain
Basket-hilted Backsword 1600 - 1784
Steel, wood, cotton | 86.5 cm (blade length) | RCIN 28466
Great Stair, Palace of Holyroodhouse
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Basket-hilted backsword. British steel hilt with plain conical pommel, c.1700-84, with three pierced radial flutes lined with a red cotton washer. Plain wooden handle. The seventeenth-century German (Solingen) double-edged blade with three fullers on each face incised with marks.
Provenance
Presented to the Holyrood Amenity Trust by Major H. Pullar, October 1926.
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Steel, wood, cotton
Measurements
86.5 cm (blade length)
103.0 cm (whole object)
