A SWEPT-HILT RAPIER in early 17th Century style, with tapering blade of flattened hexagonal section changing to flattened diamond, with a narrow inscribed central fuller on each face of the forte (inscription rubbed), iron hilt comprising guard of slender bars, the knuckle-guard linked on the outside to an upturned side-ring and on the inside by a trifurcated bar to the ends of the arms, the latter linked by a small side-ring, downcurved rear quillon, barrel-shaped pommel with vertical rib, and wire-bound wooden grip