A GERMAN SABRE with curved single-edged blade back-edged towards the point and with narrow central fuller on each face, one stamped with an S between crosses, the forte decorated with a series of punched ovals (rubbed), iron hilt comprising diagonally recurved quillons with writhen barrel-shaped terminals, slender knuckle-guard linked on the outside by an S-shaped bar to a large scallop-shaped hand-guard, and on the inside by a curved bifurcated bar to an inner loop-guard, carrying a thumb-ring and linked to a single front arm, flattened pyramidal pommel, and wooden leather-covered grip (wire binding missing), circa 1580, perhaps Brunswick