A SWEPT-HILT RAPIER with slender blade of stiff diamond section with flattened spatulate point, stamped 'In Domini' within the single fuller on each side of the forte, and on each side of the ricasso with the crowned S mark of Pietro Caino of Milan, iron hilt comprising bars of near circular section with straight quillons swelling at the tips, knuckle-guard linked on the outside by a curved bar to a large upturned side-ring linking the tips of the arms, smaller side-ring, and triple-bar inner-guard linking the arms to the knuckle-guard, tapering cylindrical pommel, and wire-bound grip, chiselled in low relief (except on the inner-guard) with running tendrils and foliage on a stippled ground divided, on the pommel, by bands of guilloche ornament, early 17th Century