Holland
I spent quite a bit of time trying to ascertain exactly what was present in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. No defections to Holland were recorded by the Solingen guilds and I couldn't find any examples of smithies there either. I suspect blades went directly from Solingen to Rotterdam where they were hilted/or not, then sent either North to Scandinavia and the Baltics, or West to the UK.
I'm sure all the Andrea Ferrara blades in Scotland came that route.
Holland will have had smiths of some sort of course, just not the fine experts from Solingen.
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