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British Basket-Hilted Swords: A Typology of Basket-Type Sword Hilts
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Edition: Hardcover 13 third-party copies available from: $24.44 (As of May 25, 04:58 AM) 
Other items of interest: • The Scottish Sword 1600-1945: An Illustrated History • Scottish Arms and Armour (Shire Collections) • Swords And Sword Makers Of England And Scotland • Highland Broadsword: Five Manuals of Scottish Regimental Swordsmanship  Product Description: The phrase basket-type hilts refers to a large group of hilts which provide a degree of protection to the hand and wrist. Basket-hilted swords have featured prominently among British military edged weapons over the past five centuries, from the Wars of the Roses in the mid fifteenth century to the period immediately after the second Boer War of the early twentieth century. In setting out to give a full account of the hilt type, and the many variants within it, the first necessity has been to provide an appropriate terminology to employ in cataloguing and describing individual examples. The book, well illustrated with 100 black and white illustrations, falls into several parts, dealing successively with general aspects of various hilt types and discussion of typological methodology, the three major groups of basket-hilted swords, the diverse group of incomplete basket hilts, 'mortuary' hilts, and hilts closely related to 'mortuary' hilts. CYRIL MAZANSKY's expertise in British military swords grew out of his interest in aspects of British military history. His large collection of British military swords may be seen at Brown University, donated by the author. Product Details/Specifications: Authors: Cyril Mazansky Recording label: Boydell Press Publishers: Boydell Press Manufacturer: Boydell Press EAN: 9781843830535 Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 1843830531 Number of items: 1 Number of pages: 318 Publication date: 2005-03 Language: English (Unknown) Language: English (Original Language) Language: English (Published) Data cached: May 25, 2013 04:58 AM (GMT -8 hours) |
