AN ENGLISH SILVER-HILTED HUNTING SWORD, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY with curved fullered blade d

AN ENGLISH SILVER-HILTED HUNTING SWORD, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY with curved fullered blade double-edged towards the point, silver hilt cast and chased in low relief, comprising flat circular quillon pierced with a mask issuant with scrolls, , knuckle-guard interrupted by a further foliate moulding, ferrule with cusped upper border, and cap pommel with lower border en suite with the ferrule, and the button formed as a finely chiselled negro head (one small chip) 51cm; 20 1/8in blade Literature Howard L Blackmore, The Blackamoor Swords, in Royal Armouries Yearbook 1998, pp. 73-5, illustrated.