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Old 6th October 2021, 01:03 PM   #17
fernando
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... My quick search has not brought more informations about that maker, except for a "John Morell & Co. - since 1827" on an antique folding knife...
Mind you Patrick, that folding knife is a marketing gift from the meat processor John Morrel ... not Morell; has nothing to do with your sword.

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... has few chips here and there but that could have been kids playing with it.
I appreciate such honest and realistic assumption; in general, folks like to think that chips are signs of battle; maybe one in a thousand, i would guess .. I recall, when in my youth, helping to vandalize a friend's grandfather military sabre.
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