A RARE EARLY ENGLISH SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD with slender blade of diamond section (point missing) stamped with letters in the fuller on both sides of the forte, the hilt with double shell-guard cast with raised lines and grotesque masks on the inner and outer side and pierced for the arms of the hilt, the latter with pierced and chased tips (one replaced), knuckle-guard and rear quillon of rectangular section, the former with pierced and chased finial, the pommel and quillon-block each of octagonal section, the grip bound with plaited silver wire, maker's mark DH, late 17th Century