A SWISS CAVALRY SWORD, SECOND QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY with contemporary curved blade double-edged at the point, cut with a slender fuller along its back-edge, engraved with exotic birds, bust profiles, scrolling foliage, and inscriptions including the later date 1665, steel hilt of flattened bars decorated with punched ornament on a stippled ground and comprising down-curved quillon with scrolling terminal, knuckle-guard interrupted by a broad moulding in the centre, outer ring-guard fitted with a sprung-in plate, boldly embossed and chased with stylised acanthus foliage and joined to the pommel by an additional bar en suite with the knuckle-guard, thumb-loop, finely chiselled pommel, and wooden grip retaining some of its early wire binding 91.8 cm; 36⅛? in blade Provenance The Moser Collection, Switzerland.