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					Originally Posted by  Jim McDougall
					 
				 
				... A makers mark at the ricasso is always probably the best potential for identification of a blades maker, however those of prominent smiths were of course widely copied... 
			
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 Sure thing, Jim; but i take it that such marks were not (at all) so much copied as written makers names.