A SWEPT-HILT RAPIER with tapering double-edged blade with central fuller on each face of the forte stamped respectively 'Iohan' and 'De La Orta', ricasso struck on one face with a mark, iron hilt painted black, comprising guard of slender bars, long diagonally recurved quillons swelling to bulbous tips, arms, the tips joined by a side-ring, two loop-guards curving in opposite directions, the upper one merging with the knuckle-guard, saltire-shaped guard on the inside, globular pommel, and later leather-covered wooden grip, late 16th Century, probably Italian