A Scottish basket-hilted broadsword circa 1780. With earlier blade, probably late 17th or early 18th century, of broad robust form, cut with a central fuller running over most of its length on both sides, flanked by a slightly shorter pair of fullers, cut with additional short fullers at the ricasso, and inscribed "Andrea Ferara" in stamped letters framed within a series of decorative marks on both sides at the forte, iron basket-guard of Glasgow type formed of symmetrical oval bars carrying pierced linear-engraved panels, fluted hemispherical po, Additional-Rights-Clearance-Info-Not-Available

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