AN ENGLISH BASKET-HILTED SABRE with curved single-deged blade back-edged towards the point and incised with a mark on each face, the iron basket hilt of 'mortuary' type, the guard elaborately pierced and chiselled with running foliage involving grotesque faces, globular pommel chiselled en suite, and spirally grooved shagreen-covered wooden grip (wire binding missing), circa 1640