AN ENGLISH SMALL-SWORD, CIRCA 1750 with associated hollow-triangular blade, steel hilt comprising double shell-guard pierced and chiselled with a trellis pattern of foliage centring on a rose within an oval, the borders decorated with swags, slightly forward-canted globular quillon, quillon-block and knuckle-guard chiselled with foliage and flowers, and ovoid pommel matching the shell-guard, and the grip with later binding of silver wire and copper ribband 81cm; 31 7/8in blade