Basket-Hilt Broadsword socks Featuring imitation ivory projecting mounts

Featuring imitation ivory projecting mounts and ferrules

The band won the 2001 Ontario Grade 1 Pipe Band Champion Supreme Award

137 x 137 cm (54” x 54”)

4oz capacity

Basket-Hilt Broadsword socks Featuring imitation ivory projecting mountsAlthough Basket Hilt swords appeared throughout Britain from the mid sixteenth century on, their association with the seventeenth and eighteenth century Scottish highlander has become legendary. Our Paul Chen Basket Hilt Broadsword, replicated from an original in the collection of the Royal Armouries in England, carries a typical Glasgow style hilt from the mid 18th century. It is likely that the blade of the original sword, marked Andrea Ferara, was