A RAPIER with broad flattened double-edged blade of flattened hexagonal section with wide shallow fuller on each face of the forte, inlaid in brass on one side with a saltire, ricasso struck with a castle mark, iron hilt of flat bars with vertically recurved quillons, the front one forming a knuckle-guard with lobed-shaped tips, two side-rings linking the tips of the arms, the upper one linked to the knuckle-guard by a curved bar, inner S-shaped guard dividing into three, tapering cylindrical pommel, and wire-bound wooden grip, early 17th Century