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ANOTHER, with tapering blade of flattened hollow diamond section, ricasso stamped with two marks inscribed respectively 'Antonio' and 'Picinino', iron hilt comprising guard of slender bars with long straight quillons swelling at the tips, knuckle-guard en suite linked on the outside by a curved bar to a large upturned side-ring linking the tips of the arms, smaller side-ring, and trifurcated inner-guard linking the arms to the knuckle-guard, decorated throughout on the outside with bands of parellel lines, fluted tapering cylindrical pommel, and wire-bound wooden grip, the pommel early 17th Century
38in. blade
38in. blade