Rapier

Rapier, the swept hilt composed of a heavy, oviform pommel (with button) divided by grooves into six vertical panels; silver and steel, wire-bound grip; straight crossguard of hexagonal section terminating in knobs; double ring-guards, joined by a swept loop to the knuckle-guard, hilt-arms, knuckle-guard, all of hexagonal section; cage scroll; decorated with masks, grotesque animals' heads and herring-bone ornament in silver on a blackened ground. The double-edged blade of flattened diamond section with ricasso; no maker's mark. The decoration of this hilt is unusual in including narrow strips of silver, engraved and punched, inlaid into the steel.

Norman and Barne, 1980, p. 364.