A RARE GERMAN BOAR-SWORD (SCHWEIN-DEGEN), LAST QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY with leaf-shaped stabbing blade of flattened-diamond section, pierced for a toggle bar at the base (missing), long hollow-ground shank stamped with a mark, flattened below the hilt to form a rectangular ricasso of flattened-hexagonal section, steel hilt comprising a pair of straight swelling faceted quillons, outer ring-guard, diagonal inner-guard joined to the right quillon by a single arm, and plummet-shaped pommel, and retaining an early two-stage wooden grip with much of its fishskin covering 106.5 cm; 42 in blade A boar-sword of similar construction is preserved in the Deutsches Jagdmuseum, Munich. See Blackmore 1971, no. 5.