A RAPIER in early 17th Century style, with double-edged blade of flattened hexagonal section inlaid on one face with a cross in a circle, iron hilt with vertically recurved quillons, heart-shaped upper and lower side-rings each with recessed central moulding, the lower one linking the tips of the arms and framing a solid plate, inner up-turned scallop-shell guard, flattened ovoidal pommel, the surfaces decorated throughout with flattened diagonal ribs, alternate ones punched with circles against a scumbled ground, and wooden grip