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Originally Posted by thinreadline
The Manton name was bought and used by a firm in Birmingham sometime in the late 1980s . They produced a whole range of edged weapons with spurious markings , I believe the weapons themselves were mostly manufactured in India .
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In that last era of the firm, I believe that's true of many Wilkinson sword blades as well.
When the firm shut down thousands blades, both completed, faulty, pattern cubboard & unfinished hit the market at very cheap prices, both officially by Wilkinsons & unofficially by all the blokes getting made redundant who worked there who filled there car boots with them. {Which due to circumstance's the management ignored.}
I suspect this is an unfinished blade from there store rooms re hilted for re sale by someone not even competent enough to put an apparently original sharp edge on it.