A RARE ENGLISH RIDING SWORD with broad straight double-edged blade of flattened hexagonal section with central fuller on each face of the forte, one incised with a cross and a running wolf mark, rectangular ricasso struck on each face with a 'castle' mark, iron hilt encrusted in silver (rubbed) throughout with running foliage and tendrils involving cherub-heads and comprising vertically recurved quillons with rounded spatulate tips, large oval side-ring linked to the knuckle-guard by a diagonal, small stirrup-shaped inner ring, large globular pommel, and wooden grip bound with iron and twisted silver wire (incomplete), early 17th Century