A RARE GERMAN SOCKET-BAYONET, the long leaf-shaped blade of hollow triangular section narrowing to join the tubular socket, and etched overall in panels with trophies of arms, foliage and four representations of the rampant sword-wielding lion of the Principality of Berg standing on crossed cannons within rhyme, 'Der bergische Lew werd ich genandt/Mein Schwert bezwinget Leut und Land/Und meiner Stücke Knallen/Macht Wäll und Mauern fallen/Des Bergischen Lewen Schwert/Eüropa Volk verhehrt/und muss für sein Stücken/Sich Wäll und Mauern bücken', and at the base of one face 'Artilerie Obrist Leitnand M.V.K.B. Ao. 1693', dated 1693; and a Spanish socket-bayonet made from a sword-blade, etched on each face at the base with the figure of St. Michael and the Dragon under, on one face, the crowned arms of Spain between the initials CS, and on the other, a cross and quatrefoil device, struck with bladesmith's mark S on both sides, with tubular brass socket, the blade early 17th Century