A basket hilted boradsword with a silver hilt, consisting of a large, low-domed pommel with a step for the ends of the guards and decorated with four radial petals in low relief; a separate, pawn-shaped tang-button and a basket with broad bars of flattened-rectangular section each with a longitudinal flute flanked on each side by two narrow ribs. The end of each of the knuckle-guards, which simply abut on the pommel, is decorated with a simple trickling ornament. A wide, triangular, integral wrist-guard has a closed scroll towards the blade. Each of the side-guards, which have broad, central sections with a central longitudinal flute between two ridges, have a fleur-de-lis terminal. The outer shield is engraved with a thistle is between the two letters, I (or J) R possibly referring to Jacobus rex (James VIII (1688-1766). Struck with Edinburgh marks for 1728/9. The main knuckle-guard has a broad, oval, central section with cusped and scrolled edges. The acanthus tips on the roots of the guards and on the stool are carried out in cut-card work. The rather prominent forward-guards continue the line of the side knuckle-guard in the manner of Stirling-made hilts. Within the basket in front of the hand is a piece of thick buff leather. The barrel-shaped, wooden grip, which in section is oval with flattened ends, is covered in grey rayskin and spirally bound at wide intervals with convex silver foil with a slight central rib. The German blade is straight with one edge has a ricasso 1 3/16" long, a narrow fuller at the spine, 25⅛" long, starting at the hilt, and a broad, contiguous fuller, 28" long, starting at the ricasso. The false edge is approximately 7¼" long. Etched in line on each face transversely is the name 'Andrea/ farara' [sic] and with wiry foliate scrolls and stylised flowers.