A HUNTING SWORD with single-edged blade back-edged over half its length, the back at the forte bordered on each face by a wide fuller etched and gilt with a watered design widening into a pseudo-ricasso, gilt-brass hilt comprising downcurved scallop-shaped shell, ribbed quillon-block, lobed rear quillon and slender knuckle-guard, pommel-cap en suite, and ray-skin covered wooden grip, first half of the 18th Century