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ANOTHER, with tapering blade of flattened diamond section, short ricasso struck on each face with a mark, C over a wave-bladed dagger, iron half-basket hilt comprising straight slender quillons with vertically recurved ends and horizontally fluted ovoidal terminals, large scallop-shaped shell on the outside bent over the hand and linked to the knuckle-guard and pommel by bars, thumb and finger-guard on the inside below diagonal and S-shaped bars merging to join the knuckle-guard, pierced fiddle-shaped pommel, and wire-bound wooden grip (wire binding loose), early 17th Century
37½in. blade
37½in. blade