A FRENCH SMALL-SWORD, CIRCA 1760 with tapering hollow-triangular blade, etched and gilt with scrolls, foliage, the inscription 'Vive le Roy' and the crowned Royal arms on a trophy-of-arms on a blued panel at the forte, iron hilt cast and chased in low relief against a gilt matted ground, comprising double shell-guard decorated with differing hunting vignettes within frameworks incorporating trees, scrolls, bouquets, oak and vine fruit and foliage, a pair of arms, quillon-block decorated with a hound on each face, globular quillon and knuckle-guard each decorated with rococo scrolls and bouquets, globular pommel decorated with vine fruit and foliage, inhabited by a goat and an ox, and the grip with an early binding of plaited silver wire between 'Turk's heads' 81.0 cm; 32 in blade