A CUP-HILT RAPIER with slender tapering blade of stiff diamond section, the iron guard comprising cup formed of a framework of slender bars enclosing two large convex shells (one slightly damaged and repaired) and four minor ones, all with numerous small piercings, and made in one with the arms, straight quillons, knuckle-guard, later tapering cylindrical fluted pommel, and spirally futed wire-bound wooden grip, second quarter of the 17th Century, Spanish or Italian