According with German Dueñas Beraiz, an important scholar on spanish swords, one type of blade, very characteristic, but rarely identified with the spanish production, was the sword with a flammard blade. It was less known, because those weapons were not appreciated, and otherwise even censurated by the catolic church, as they were related with the devil and the serpent.
There are spanish swords with flammard blades in some museums, from Sahagun and Abraham de Vilina, probably a spanish-jew swordsmith, and another one form Juan Martínez.
I don´t belive they are masonic swords, but for fighting. Please see:
Dueñas Beraiz, Germán
"Introducción al estudio tipológico de las espadas españolas: siglos XVI-XVII"
Gladius, Vol. XXIV, 2004, pag. 217
Spain
Regards
Gonzalo
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