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					Originally Posted by  Victrix
					 
				 
				Melchior Steiner started production of sword blades in Pottenstein (lower Austria) in 1765. 
			
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 A production start at Pottenstein in 1765 is IMHO impossible because Melchior Steiner was baptised not before novembre 21. 1762. But as there are sabres with the Pottenstein signature of the year 1749, the information given with 1765 must be wrong.