Details
ANOTHER, with tapering single-edged blade back-edged towards the point and with narrow central fuller on each face, etched and gilt with running foliage below a band of bolder foliage bordering the back, at the base of each face a panel etched and gilt with pseudo-watering framing the crowned arms of Salm within palm branches above the initials 'W.G.Z.S.', gilt-brass hilt (gilding rubbed) with short straight quillons and flat pommel-cap, natural staghorn grip set with longitudinal strips of beading at front and rear, and with three studs on the outside, the metal parts decorated throughout with olive branches, foliage and rosettes in neo-Classical style, early 19th Century, the blade German, early 18th Century
23½in. blade [E.44]
