**A SWISS CAVALRY SWORD, SECOND QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY with contemporary very broad curved blade double-edged at the point, cut at each side with three long fullers along the back-edge, stamped with the sacred trigram 'IHS' and a series of decorative marks on one side, steel hilt of flattened bars, comprising horizontally recurved quillons with lion mask terminals, trefoil-shaped ring-guard, an S-shaped outer guard interrupted by a pair of hatched mouldings, knuckle-guard decorated en suite, inner-guard of two bars incorporating a thumb-loop, lionshead pommel, and the frontal bars punched and lightly engraved with scrolls, and retaining a spirally-carved grip bound with twisted wire and 'Turk's heads' 85.4cm; 33 5/8in blade Provenance The Moser Collection