AN ENGLISH BACKSWORD with tapering blade back-edged towards the point and with three narrow fullers changing to two on each face, the centre ones stamped respectively 'Andrea' and 'Ferara', iron 'mortuary' hilt composed of narrow flat bars and a hand-guard pierced and roughly chiselled with a design of male masks alternating with monster's heads, globular pommel roughly chiselled with foliage, and spirally grooved wooden grip (binding missing), mid-17th Century