A COMPOSITE GERMAN RAPIER with broad double-edged blade of flattened hexagonal section with double fullers on each face of the forte incised with a running wolf mark, ricasso struck twice with a castle mark, iron hilt with guard of flat bars, comprising vertically recurved quillons, the front one forming a knuckle-guard widening in the centre, each with disc terminal, upper and lower side-rings widening in the centre, the lower one linking the arms, saltire-shaped thumb-guard, flattened tapering cylindrical pommel, the outer surfaces throughout with radiating ribs and grooves, and later wooden grip, early 17th Century