With slightly curved single edge blade becoming double edged towards the point cut with a long slender fuller running along the back edge of the blade for most of its length and stamped either side, S.HARVEY steel three-quarter basket hilt with wooden grip and bun shaped pommel. A rare sword in outstanding condition.
A similar example housed in the Royal Armouries (Ref:IX.2138) is illustrated in Cyril Mazansky (2005) British Basket-Hilted Swords A Typology of Basket-Tyoe Sword Hilts, Boydell Press, Suffolk, UK. (page 230).