A Scottish Officer's Basket-Hilted Broadsword, Late 18th Century

A Scottish Officer's Basket-Hilted Broadsword
Late 18th Century
With tapering double-edged blade (some edge nicks and old surface rust), brass guard retaining traces of silvering, comprising slender rounded bars (minor old repairs) framing plain elongated and ovoidal panels and with a ring at the top beneath the pommel, slender fore-guards, blunt wrist-guard, fluted conical brass pommel with separate threaded button, and leather-wrapped wooden grip
77 cm. blade