A COMPOSITE ITALIAN SWORD, the double-edged blade with short inscribed central fuller on each face at the forte, the hilt with double 'crab-claw' quillons and two concentric oval side-rings, the top one notched, and with a scallop-shaped shell between, plummet-shaped pommel, and wire-bound wooden grip, comprehensively 17th Century; and a left-hand dagger in Spanish 17th Century style, with single-edged blade back-edged towards the point, pierced ricasso hollowed for the thumb, triangular iron guard cast with a grotesque foliated mask, writhen quillons, compressed writhen pommel, and wire-bound wooden grip