A SPANISH CUP-HILT RAPIER in 17th Century style, with earlier slender blade of flattened hexagonal section with central fullers at the forte inscribed 'In Te Domin/e Speravi', iron hilt with slender quillons, knuckle-guard, and deep cup-guard through which the quillons pass, drawn up to a blunt point at the front and pierced and chased with strapwork and conventional foliage, ovoidal pommel cast with foliated scrolls in low relief, and wire-bound wooden grip