A GERMAN COURT-SWORD with blade of hollow triangular section etched and gilt against traces of blueing at the forte with a trophy, foliage and on one face with the crowned arms, and on the other the monogram of Maximilian Josef of Bavaria under à royal crown, the base of one face signed 'Peter Wilh. Knecht Fabrikant a Soligen', plain steel hilt of characteristic form with solid oval shell, and polygonal grip and pommel; another, with cut and beaded steel hilt (damaged), in original leather-covered scabbard (damaged); and another (damaged), all early 19th Century