A GERMAN HUNTING SWORD, SECOND QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY with straight polished blade double-edge towards the point, engraved with a lengthy German inscription relating to the chase on one face at the forte and with the owner's coat-of-arms (now erased) on the other, the back-edge with the earlier date 1624, gilt-brass hilt cast in low relief, comprising down-turned shell-guard with a hunter and a stag set upon by a pair of hounds, hound's head quillon, knuckle-guard decorated with a hunter, cap pommel and tapering sharkskin-covered grip, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard with gilt-brass mounts decorated en suite, comprising chape with a stag running in a wooden landscape and locket with suspension button formed as an oak leaf on a trophy-of-hunting, complete with its accompanying knife with gilt-brass hilt and shagreen grip en suite 61.5 cm; 24 1/4 in blade