A CONTINENTAL CAVALRY SWORD with tapering double-edged blade of flattened hexagonal section, struck on each face at the forte with three marks and at the base on one face with a P mark, iron hilt with single bar half-basket guard and thumb-ring, globular pommel, and wire-bound wooden grip, late 17th/early 18th Century; another, similar; a continental infantry sword with associated double-edged blade etched on each side at the forte with a Latin inscription, a running wolf, and the spurious date 1550, brass hilt comprising guard with two asymmetrical shells, one stamped B.C.49 (rear quillon missing), knuckle-guard, globular pommel, and wire-bound grip; another, similar (one shell and grip binding missing, blade pitted); and another, with single-edged blade (shortened and pitted), steel half-basket hilt, globular pommel, and brass grip, all 18th Century

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A CONTINENTAL CAVALRY SWORD with tapering double-edged blade of flattened hexagonal section, struck on each face at the forte with three marks and at the base on one face with a P mark, iron hilt with single bar half-basket guard and thumb-ring, globular pommel, and wire-bound wooden grip, late 17th/early 18th Century; another, similar; a continental infantry sword with associated double-edged blade etched on each side at the forte with a Latin inscription, a running wolf, and the spurious date 1550, brass hilt comprising guard with two asymmetrical shells, one stamped B.C.49 (rear quillon missing), knuckle-guard, globular pommel, and wire-bound grip; another, similar (one shell and grip binding missing, blade pitted); and another, with single-edged blade (shortened and pitted), steel half-basket hilt, globular pommel, and brass grip, all 18th Century
The first 35½in. blade (5)

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