![What is the purpose of the edge beveling of this 17th century piece? Is it to make it an ornamentational piece? Museum lists it a "mortuary sword" : r/ SWORDS What is the purpose of the edge beveling of this 17th century piece? Is it to make it an ornamentational piece? Museum lists it a "mortuary sword" : r/ SWORDS](https://preview.redd.it/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-edge-beveling-of-this-17th-v0-ba2rjjizs7vb1.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=433a39c6091470b2918bf75999e5267a9d221d2d)
What is the purpose of the edge beveling of this 17th century piece? Is it to make it an ornamentational piece? Museum lists it a "mortuary sword" : r/ SWORDS
![Blade by Johannes Wundes the Younger | Basket-hilted Sword | hilt, British; blade, German | The Metropolitan Museum of Art Blade by Johannes Wundes the Younger | Basket-hilted Sword | hilt, British; blade, German | The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/aa/original/LC-09_210_2-002.jpg)
Blade by Johannes Wundes the Younger | Basket-hilted Sword | hilt, British; blade, German | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
![An 18th century Scottish basket hilt sword, having 80.5cm single edged blade, (double edged towards tip) with single long slender fuller to each face, basket hilt with plain conical pommel and wood An 18th century Scottish basket hilt sword, having 80.5cm single edged blade, (double edged towards tip) with single long slender fuller to each face, basket hilt with plain conical pommel and wood](https://hansonslive.hansonsauctioneers.co.uk/images/lot/9818/98185_0.jpg?1607360764)
An 18th century Scottish basket hilt sword, having 80.5cm single edged blade, (double edged towards tip) with single long slender fuller to each face, basket hilt with plain conical pommel and wood
![Past auction: AN IMPORTANT EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY SILVER MOUNTED SCOTTISH BASKET HILTED SWORD C1620 | August 15, 2018 Past auction: AN IMPORTANT EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY SILVER MOUNTED SCOTTISH BASKET HILTED SWORD C1620 | August 15, 2018](https://media.app.artisio.co/media/104cbde6-0d38-43cb-9e0f-bb721ef57bcf/inventory/448f87c1-0915-4a45-bfa4-c01e2e9c8b59/8584aa6c-f48a-42f9-8bfb-1a65e0f938d3/0001_gqhCnd_original.jpg)
Past auction: AN IMPORTANT EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY SILVER MOUNTED SCOTTISH BASKET HILTED SWORD C1620 | August 15, 2018
![A Scottish basket-hilted broadsword circa 1780. With earlier blade, probably late 17th or early 18th century, of broad robust form, cut with a central fuller running over most of its length on A Scottish basket-hilted broadsword circa 1780. With earlier blade, probably late 17th or early 18th century, of broad robust form, cut with a central fuller running over most of its length on](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/T8EFYA/a-scottish-basket-hilted-broadsword-circa-1780-with-earlier-blade-probably-late-17th-or-early-18th-century-of-broad-robust-form-cut-with-a-central-fuller-running-over-most-of-its-length-on-both-sides-flanked-by-a-slightly-shorter-pair-of-fullers-cut-with-additional-short-fullers-at-the-ricasso-and-inscribed-andrea-ferara-in-stamped-letters-framed-within-a-series-of-decorative-marks-on-both-sides-at-the-forte-iron-basket-guard-of-glasgow-type-formed-of-symmetrical-oval-bars-carrying-pierced-linear-engraved-panels-fluted-hemispherical-po-additional-rights-clearance-info-not-available-T8EFYA.jpg)