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Old 29th April 2019, 02:18 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by Philip
... If you would re-read Lavin pp 214-215 he explains that these can be quite cryptic, including abbreviations, using non-standard spellings, or even incorporating place names...
As i have tried to put in post #7 ... perhaps in an insufficient manner ...
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Originally Posted by fernando
... I would not need to emphasize that, the three row letters group in a shield, is by far the marking system used by the then Spanish gunsmiths. They even used different schemes to initialize their names to comply (aesthetically) with such method...
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