A COMPOSITE SWEPT-HILT RAPIER, the tapering double-edged blade of flattened hexagonal section with central fuller on each face of the forte, each inscribed 'Pedro Hernandez' (rubbed), iron hilt comprising a symmetrical guard (repaired) of slender bars with arms, vertically recurved quillons and knuckle-guard flanked on each side by three rings, the inner two separated by an oval fluted shell, fluted pommel of truncated conical shape, and later wire-bound wooden grip, basically early 17th Century