A COMPOSITE SWORD with broad double-edged blade with shallow central fuller incised with a split cross mark on each face of the forte, iron hilt with vertically recurved quillons, arms and double side-rings, incised with geometric designs at the tips, fluted barrel-shaped pommel incised with hatched bands and grotesque masks, and wire-bound wooden grip, early 17th Century, probably German

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A COMPOSITE SWORD with broad double-edged blade with shallow central fuller incised with a split cross mark on each face of the forte, iron hilt with vertically recurved quillons, arms and double side-rings, incised with geometric designs at the tips, fluted barrel-shaped pommel incised with hatched bands and grotesque masks, and wire-bound wooden grip, early 17th Century, probably German
34½in. blade