Basket-Hilted Broadsword

Basket-Hilted Broadsword

Hilt: c. 1720, Blade: early 1700s · hilt: Scotland; blade: Germany, Solingen, hilt: 18th Century

steel; liner of buff leather; grip of wood, copper wire and fishskin (ray?)

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