German iron industry
Hey Jim, I do know that they have ascertained that the iron and blade industry in the Wupper Valley dates back 2,000 years.
The relevant area for metal working was Remscheid, which latterly tended towards Protestantism, in particular Lennep.
I also understood that Koln was the trading center in the North West as opposed to Passau in the South West and Augsburg in the South East. I may be wrong.
It is also said that it was the traders in Koln who were adding the spurious names such as Toledo and Andrea Ferrara, which has always seemed far more credible compared to the Solingen smiths doing it.
That casts an altogether different light on the issue, does it not?
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