**A CONTINENTAL SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD, CIRCA 1750, PROBABLY GERMAN
with tapering blade of triangular section (shortened), inlaid with brass scrollwork on one side of the forte, silver hilt cast and chased in low relief, including double shell-guard decorated with four differing portrait profiles and scrollwork, knuckle-guard interrupted by a matching central moulding (the upper portion missing), globular pommel en suite and the grip with an early binding of silver wire between 'Turk's heads'
68.5 cm; 27 in blade

Literature: D. D. Hartzler 2000, fig. 97, inv. no. JKL 234