‡A NORTH EUROPEAN SMALL-SWORD, CIRCA 1770 with tapering blade of hollow-triangular section, gilt-brass hilt cast, pierced and chiselled with openwork designs of foliage within writhen frames, including double shell-guard, knuckle-guard (detached), short quillon with globular terminal, and ovoid pommel, and the grip retaining a portion of its binding and 'Turk's Heads', in its fishskin-covered wooden scabbard with brass mounts en suite with the hilt 74.2 cm; 29 ¼ in blade