A CAVALRY SWORD with sharply tapering blade of flattened hollow diamond section, iron hilt with half-basket guard secured to the pommel by a screw and comprising two shell-guards engraved with conventional foliage, the outer one joined to the pommel by a slender bar linked to the knuckle-guard by scrolling bars, thumb-ring and downcurved rear quillon, flattened globular pommel engraved with foliage, and wire-bound wooden grip (binding incomplete), mid-17th Century, probably Dutch