A SWEPT-HILT RAPIER in late 16th Century style, with slender double-edged blade (pitted , joined at the ricasso), iron hilt of slender bars comprising straight trumpet-shaped quillons, arms, two side-rings on the outside, the lower one filled with a pierced plate, and on the inside, three diagonal curved bars merging to join the knuckle-guard, octagonal barrel-shaped pommel, and wire-bound wooden grip