A COMPOSITE GERMAN ESTOC with narrowing tapering blade of hollow-ground triangular section inlaid with a panel of foliage in brass on the reverse side at the forte, iron hilt with hemispherical basket of slender curved bars above a solid double-shell and with thumbring on the inner side, decoarted at the intersections and on the double shell with applied studs filed with basketwork, long slender diagonally recurved quillons with globular terminals deeply cut with basketwork, compressed globular pommel of decagonal section, and swelling wooden grip (binding missing), 16th/17th Century