A Venetian basket-hilted sword (schiavona), double-edged blade 35 in. with low medial ridge,

A Venetian basket-hilted sword (schiavona), double-edged blade 35 in. with low medial ridge, characteristic iron basket guard formed of converging and overlapping flat bars radiating from the quillon ends, thumb loop, heart-shaped pommel with chased decoration, wooden grip of rectangular section and swollen at the centre (some grip binding retained separately), 18th century.