A Rare Officer's Brass Basket-Hilted Sword, Mid-Late 18th Century

With tapering double-edged blade (some pitting overall) cut with a pair of narrow fullers along each side beyond the forte, the latter pierced with a small central hole, elaborate brass guard of slender bars forming open ovoidal panels (minor breaks) filled by triple cusped bars, and joined at the top by a ring beneath the pommel, globular brass pommel with three medial lines and flattened button, and old spirally-grooved leather-covered grip (old split) bound with a strand of twisted wire
89.5 cm. blade

For an account of basket hilts of this type, some of which can be identified in portraits of 18th century Scottish officers, including 'The Pinch of Snuff' attributed to William Delacour, see John Wallace, Scottish Swords and Dirks, 1970, no. 44; and for similar examples see Cyril Mazansky, British Basket-Hilted Swords, 2005, p. 174