with broad flat tapering blade, struck ‘HSHHHS’ between a series of decorative marks within a pair of short fullers framed by engraved lines at the forte on each face, iron hilt of faceted bars, comprising a pair of vertically recurved quillons swelling at the terminals, outer ring-guard joined to a shallow convex C-shaped basal plate by a pair of arms, upper ring-guard joined to the knuckle-guard by an additional bar, inner-guard ensuite formed of a ring-guard with a matching basal plate and an open thumb-loop, faceted spherical pommel, and the grip with a later binding of plaited wire between ‘Turk’s heads’ (areas of pitting throughout), 91.7 cm blade

Provenance

Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1162

A sword with a related hilt is illustrated Brooker 2016, p. 13, fig. 15. Two further examples are preserved in the Pilgrim Hall Museum, Massachusetts, see Brooker, ibid.