This Basket Hilt is in the Royal Onario Museum. IMHO it is a beautiful example



Jack

Yes, it's beautyful. Personally I prefer the ones with more standard forward guards. There's a really nice on at the Culloden Visitors Center that has been excavated. Too bad it didn't say where...

Thanks for sharing!

Cheers,
Henrik

If you'd like to have one like this for your own collection, check this out:

http://faganarms.com/amid18thcenturyscottishb...sword.aspx

Ah yes, a so-called "Pinch of Snuff" hilt with removeable foregaurd. Rather rare, and very nice! I know ElJay has made some beautiful reproduction POS (that's Pinch of Snuff) hilts, but I don't know if he's made one with the removeable gaurd....

("Pinch of Snuff" comes from the name of a painting of an officer in a Highland Regiment carrying one of these swords. The officer is also enjoying a pinch of... something....)