A 17TH CENTURY ENGLISH CIVIL WAR PERIOD OFFICER'S RAPIER, 94cm backsword blade, characteristic hilt with shallow dished guard sparsely chiselled with stylised foliage, the crossguard with flattened spherical terminals, chevron decorated quillon block, D-shaped knuckle guard, spherical pommel, the whole decorated to match, wooden grip with Turk's heads. The dished guard a contemporary replacement.