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			Fernando: thank-you for the script, it is an interesting read, but unfortunately it only goes to the 1600s and I need the first half of the 1700s. 
 
Thank-you Jim.  A fascinating look at a mysterious sword. 
That BTF has certainly been augmented with an H which probably indicates William Harvey as the Samuel dynasty mostly used SH. 
As I have concluded: these blades marked with the BTF and sold in Birmingham were almost certainly made by Oley in Shotley Bridge; and/or.... 
according to genealogical records there were Oleys down in Birmingham by then and there were also a few in Sheffield . 
The details of blade shapes – especially the cross-sections – captured my attention in several respects, mainly however: Bild 67: blade B. refers to 'grooves' and fullers, which is certainly at variance with common parlance that refers to all as fullers, and should also actually indicate the shape of blade C (a Montmorency) not B. 
A fuller is actually the name of the tool used to hammer in a groove and is now called a former; what that page refers to as a fuller is actually a hollow.
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
				  
				
					
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