ANOTHER, with straight hollow-ground single-edged blade back-edged towards the point and etched and gilt at the forte with wreaths and sprays of flowers and foliage against a blued ground, and gilt-brass hilt with short quillons and slender knuckle-guard of octagonal section, the latter with a triple-bead central feature, the tapering ivory handle of circular section carved with a melée of hounds attacking a hind and a stag, gilt-brass moulded ferrule, the handle German, late 17th Century