A COMPOSITE SPANISH CUP-HILT RAPIER with later tapering blade with central fuller on each face of the forte stamped 'Julian De Zamara XXX', the iron hilt comprising cup formed of a large double upturned shells pierced and chiselled with running foliated scrollwork framing a multi-petalled flower, linked fore and aft by arched bars, arms, straight quillons with turned terminals, knuckle-guard en suite, pommel of ribbed conical shape roughly chiselled with foliage, and spirally fluted wire-bound wooden grip, mid-17th Century