with tapering blade of flattened-diamond section, iron hilt comprising a pair of outer ring-guards each swelling toward the centre and fitted with a sprung-in plates pierced with a stylised design of woven petals and a central fleur-de-lys, horizontally recurved quillons with knop-shaped terminals, associated fluted ovoid pommel, wooden grip (binding missing) and a chased copper alloy collar top and bottom, 82.7 cm blade