A fine Italian two-hand processional sword circa 1560-70. With double-edged blade of flattened hexagonal section tapering towards a short point, formed with a ricasso, and stamped with the sacred inscription "IHS" together with "MA" and "RIA" in a vertical arrangement segmented within double linear panels on both sides at the forte, iron hilt chiselled in relief, formed of a pair of faceted quillons decorated with spirally fluted globular terminals and each interrupted by a spirally fluted knop carried between leaf mouldings, with symmetrical inn, Additional-Rights-Clearance-Info-Not-Available
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