A SWEPT-HILT RAPIER with later tapering double-edged blade with central rib between two fullers for half its length, the iron hilt with slender bars of circular section comprising straight quillons, arms, the tips linked on the outer side by three concentric upturned side-rings, the largest linked by a curved bar to the knuckle-guard, and on the inner side by a corresponding trifurcated bar, another inner bar links the front quillon to the front arm, globular pommel, and writhen wire-bound wooden grip, early 17th Century