A COMPOSITE SWEPT-HILT RAPIER, the tapering double-edged blade (some pitting overall) of flattened hexagonal section with inscribed central fuller on each face at the forte, iron hilt comprising a symmetrical guard of slender bars of diamond section with arms, vertically recurved quillons and knuckle-guard flanked on each side by three concentric rings, the innermost ones filled by pierced plates, the outer ones linked by diagonal bars to the knuckle-guard, tapering cylindrical pommel, and later wire-bound wooden grip, early 17th Century