A Black Watch Scottish Basket Hilt

[Jim McDougall]

Originally Posted by Battara

I agree JIm. I didn't think that this form would be from the Battle of Culloden since they were from 1778 on.....

Thank you Jose, I admit of course that in researching I had sort of hoped to stretch the terrminus ante quem back to that time, but the earliest I can discover on these conical pommel munitions grade examples is 1750s.
It is possible that Birmingham maker Samuel Harvey might have made them in that time but so far it is only Jeffries c.1757. Dru Drury (also of London) seems to have partnered with him and the examples mostly seen are 1760s-70s.

Before 1757 there are no real records of what kinds of swords were used by the 'government' troops of Scots, who supplied their own swords (Darling, 1988).