Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - The Ayzavilla or Crowned T Bilbos mistery solved

Jim McDougall · 22nd September 2025, 01:07 AM

This is amazing! but I am puzzled.

If I understand the AYZAVILLA with the flaming T is from the new factory at Toledo from 1761+ ??
However, the same T marking occurs on the M1728 swords from the family ARRIVILLAGA of Tolosa in Basque country?

It seems that Nuemann ("Swords and Blades of the American Revolution", 1972) shows one of these M1728 with flaming T and AYZAVILLA on blade and suggests use the the Galvez campaigns.

22nd September 2025, 01:07 AM	#2
Jim McDougall Arms Historian Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Route 66 Posts: 10,599	This is amazing! but I am puzzled. If I understand the AYZAVILLA with the flaming T is from the new factory at Toledo from 1761+ ?? However, the same T marking occurs on the M1728 swords from the family ARRIVILLAGA of Tolosa in Basque country? It seems that Nuemann ("Swords and Blades of the American Revolution", 1972) shows one of these M1728 with flaming T and AYZAVILLA on blade and suggests use the the Galvez campaigns.