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Originally Posted by Jim McDougall
ALL Osborn blades have G or GG, with no determination as to why these letter 'G' are singular or paired.
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Minor correction here Jim, but Henry Osborn initially stamped his blades with a crown over the letters HO. This changed somewhere around 1797 as there exists a 1798 dated Osborn sword with the G stamp.
My 1796 LC officers by Osborn is stamped with the Crown over HO proof.
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Originally Posted by Jim McDougall
None of the other makers/cutlers (Gill and Osborn produced blades while others were typically cutlers) had these letters on blades, yet all were exporting swords to America.
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I'm not sure if I read your sentence correctly, but officer blades produced by Dawes typically have an S stamp on the ricasso, close to the tang. This is not evident on his trooper swords.