A Proto Mortuary Sword, Circa 1600. With tapering single edged blade, cut with a long fuller running along the back edge, double edged at the point, the sword is signed by the blade-smith within the fuller, ANDREA FERRAR, with fluted shell-guard decorated with primitively chiselled decoration of the Green Man, retaining original wire bound grip with Turks-heads. Of munition quality. A lovely example. 

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See page 226 of Stuart C. Mowbary (2013) British Military Swords, Volume One: 1600-1660. The Proto Mortuary Sword. for similar examples. This sword is similar to an example in the Gunnersbury Park Museum. 

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