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Old 11th April 2017, 11:19 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by Victrix
Staffan Kinman's "European Makers of Edged Weapons, Their Marks" mention Carl Eickhorn (1865-1976), Friedrich Eickhorn (1650-1680) and Peter Lobach (1580-1650) all from Solingen as using a squirrel mark.

Yes indeed it was a visual representation of their family name , which of course means squirrel. But is the marking a squirrel .... ? Can you do a better image of it for us ?
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