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A SCOTTISH BASKET-HILTED BROADSWORD C.1730
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Item Number: 08-651
A fine example of impressive proportions. Large fighting hilt of Glasgow form with fretted and pierced panels flanked by flattened bars. Large rolled quillon. Wire wrapped spirally fluted leather covered grip. 37" double edged blade with broad central fuller at the forte etched each side with Prudentia et Constantia, and crowned Georgian royal cipher with the GR obliterated both sides. The motto identifies this sword as belonging to a member of the Denman family. The Georgian crown with the cipher of George II obliterated not only date it to pre Scottish Rebellion, it testifies to the choice of Scottish allegiance when the time for choosing came. Further, by implication, it places this example in the Rebellion itself. Any Scottish sword with such personal family association is exceedingly rare. In our 40 years plus experience no other example of a Scottish broadsword of the Rebellion period identified to a family has come on the market, much less two!.
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The blade virtually identical including the erased ciphers and clearly etched by the same hand. A second example Denman family sword of the Rebellion period.
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The Jacobite Rebellions of 1688 to 1746 championed the restoration to the throne of the House of Stuart, deposed during the English Civil War.
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This sword is from a group of which about a dozen examples are known. Variations in the configuration of the hilt elements include examples with and with out a forward quillon and the inclusion of an oval rein aperture.
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