A COMPOSITE SWEPT-HILT RAPIER with slender blade of flattened hexagonal section, central fuller inlaid on one face at the forte in brass with running wolf mark (brass partly missing), iron hilt comprising symmetrical guard of slender bars with three rings on each side linked by curved diagonals to the knuckle-guard, arms, vertically recurved quillons, globular pommel, and later wire-bound wooden grip, early 17th Century