A COMPOSITE BROADSWORD with blade of flattened hexagonal section with central fuller on each side at the forte, iron hilt comprising slender vertically recurved quillons with hatched comma-shaped terminals, oval side-ring on each side, the outer one with a hatched central oval and riveted scallop-shaped shell (pitted, slightly holed), slender inner-ring (broken) with thumb-ring, fig-shaped pommel chiselled with acanthus foliage, and wire-bound wooden grip, circa 1630, probably German