‡A SWEDISH INFANTRY SWORD, CIRCA 1685 with tapering double-edged blade of flattened-hexagonal section (the tip shortened), struck with three flowerhead marks on each face at the forte and a proof mark, the letter 'P' at the front, rudimentary blackened iron hilt (areas of patination), comprising guard drawn-out to a short straight quillon and pierced at the rear, frontal guard bar and knuckle-guard joined at the top (thumb-loop missing), spherical pommel, and the grip with an early binding of plaited brass wire between 'Turk's Heads' 74.5 cm; 29 3/8 in blade For a related sword see Kinman 2014, fig. 101, p.71, discussed pp. 72-4.