The hilt of steel consists of an oval pommel, a pair of short crossguards and a shell guard outside the hand parallel to the blade. The pommel and shell are chiselled in high relief with equestrian figures. The crossguards each consist of a horseman galloping away from the mouth of a monster. The blade which is two-edged with a stout central rib on one face may be from an oriental spear. The pommel and guards are from a civilian dress-sword of the middle of the 17th century. Swords and daggers of this type were very interesting to Victorian and early 20th Century collectors.
