In rechecking my references, and I wanted to add the note here so as not to be lost in my previous and huge text.....I found this in the same page in Boeheim, p.669:
A marking of an S transposed over a T and surmounted by a G as to PEDRO HERNANDEZ of Toledo, 17th c.!!!
There is also a small word la misma (?) in script.
In the Wagner reference to PIETRO HERNANDEZ there is a stamped mark of a clover in a lozenge cartouche with an 'S' over it on the rapier previously mentioned (plate 6) with this name in inscription on blade.
Similar clover devices used in Solingen (as well as Holland with the 'kleeblatt' =clover)....
more support for the complex Solingen connections (a number of Solingen smiths went to Holland) as well as strong suggestion Pedro was indeed separate from the Hernandez lineage proper , and clearly powerfully represented in Solingen context.
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