Ref: R01133
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 Anglo-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 falls into several parts, dealing successively with general aspects of various hilt types, discussion of typological methodology and analysis of hilt construction and decorations. The major groups of basket hilt types, covering the prototypes, early basket hilts and the wide variety of fully developed hilts, are described in detail. Additionally, the diverse group of incomplete basket hilts, the 'mortuary' hilts and those closely related to the 'mortuary' hilts, are described and given detailed typological classifications. Virtually all hilt types are accompanied with a photographic example. 


Price: £50.00