ANOTHER with curved single-edged blade back-edged at the point and etched at the forte with rococo scrollwork, scenes of the chase, trophies of arms and buildings, all with traces of gilding, brass hilt comprising downturned shell, knuckle-guard, rear quillon with lobed tip, and pommel-cap, green-stained bone grip partly studded with pewter nails (some heads missing), the metal parts throughout cast and chased at intervals with scrolling foliage involving grotesques masks and animals of the chase, including a stag in the middle of the shell, mid-18th Century

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ANOTHER with curved single-edged blade back-edged at the point and etched at the forte with rococo scrollwork, scenes of the chase, trophies of arms and buildings, all with traces of gilding, brass hilt comprising downturned shell, knuckle-guard, rear quillon with lobed tip, and pommel-cap, green-stained bone grip partly studded with pewter nails (some heads missing), the metal parts throughout cast and chased at intervals with scrolling foliage involving grotesques masks and animals of the chase, including a stag in the middle of the shell, mid-18th Century
21½in. blade [E.52]

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