A COMPOSITE TRANSITIONAL RAPIER with wide tapering blade of flattened hexagonal section changing to flattened diamond, the central fullers on each face of the forte stamped 'Tomas Aialia' and 'En Toledo', iron hilt comprising symmetrical side-rings each with double spherical ornament and framing a pierced plate, slender bifurcated quillons with spherical terminals, slender knuckle-guard with central ornament en suite, plummet-shaped pommel chiselled with conventional foliage, and later wooden grip, circa 1640, probably Dutch or English