Ⓦ A RARE ENGLISH BACKSWORD, CIRCA 1620

Ⓦ A RARE ENGLISH BACKSWORD, CIRCA 1620

with tapering blade double-edged for its last third, struck with a small crown mark at the forte on one face and with three short grooves, iron hilt of flattened bars, comprising a pair of vertically recurved quillons with broad rounded terminals, outer ring-guard enclosing a smaller lower ring-guard, the former joined to the knuckle-guard by an additional bar, inner-guard incorporating a ring en suite and an additional bar joining the knuckle-guard, and large near spherical pommel, and wooden grip bound with plaited wire between 'Turk's heads'

91.5 cm; 36 in blade

Property from the David Jeffcoat Collection (1945-2020)

Part proceeds to benefit The Wallace Collection

A sword of related form is illustrated Valentine 1968, p. 24, no. 13.