A NORTH EUROPEAN SMALL-SWORD, CIRCA 1770 with associated blade etched and gilt over its entire length with scrolls and pellets on a gilt ground, iron hilt pierced and chiselled with a trellis pattern carrying rondels set with flowers, including oval shell-guard, pierced quillon, knuckle-guard and pommel, and later wire grip, in a leather scabbard 76.5 cm; 30 1/8 in blade