A SWEPT-HILT RAPIER in 16th Century style, with slender tapering blade (pitted) inscribed within the central fuller on each face at the forte, iron hilt of slender bars, the outer ones interrupted by an open writhen central feature en suite with the quillon terminals and pommel, and wire-bound wooden grip; and a sword in German mid-16th Century style, with broad double-edged blade struck with three asterisk-like marks on one side at the forte, guard comprising arched quillons bent forwards, outer side-ring, single arms, and inner diagonal finger-guard, barrel-shaped writhen pommel, and wire-bound wooden grip 42½in. and 34¾in. blades (2)