A SWEDISH RIDING SWORD with tapering double-edged blade with short fuller on each face of the forte incised with a running wolf mark and the spurious date '1414', the guard with flat vertically recurved quillons with triangular ends with buttons, double side-rings, each framing a plate with numerous small circular piercings, the inner one with thumb-ring, heart-shaped pommel, and later spirally twisted velvet-covered wire-bound wooden grip, circa 1640

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A SWEDISH RIDING SWORD with tapering double-edged blade with short fuller on each face of the forte incised with a running wolf mark and the spurious date '1414', the guard with flat vertically recurved quillons with triangular ends with buttons, double side-rings, each framing a plate with numerous small circular piercings, the inner one with thumb-ring, heart-shaped pommel, and later spirally twisted velvet-covered wire-bound wooden grip, circa 1640
35 3/8in. blade

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