Hunting Sword no1

Jim McDougall · 11th June 2014, 04:15 AM

Norman and Ibrahiim, thank you for the kind words

!!
I am warned by my wife that any more books in this thing will require much heavier springs!!
My hope is that others will be joining in here quid pro quo....I add whatever I can find in order to share as much as I can and there are so many other references out there I don't have here. That's why I implore others who have them to check them and add their notes.

On the Scot/French situation. While that was of course a well established alliance and the French language was well spoken in Scotland, the deal with these fleur de lis markings on these basket hilt swords I think not really applicable. These were English blades on British dragoon swords which were typically from Birmingham, and there mostly from Germany (though these FDL blades are still undetermined) .
I am beginning to wonder if these fleur de lis blades might have been from St. Etienne? There seem to be a good number found in French mounts, more than I had thought.

M ELEY · 11th June 2014, 04:46 AM

I'm wondering just how far back the fleur-de-lis really goes on English blades?! I've personally seen at least two of the so-called 'doghead' Englsh naval swords (brass cast monster/dog gripped) from the 1680-1710 period with the above stamp! Early Brit naval hanger baldes from this period often had German blades (the King/crown Wundes family marking comes to mind), so still wondeering if these baldes are German-made imports?

Hotspur · 11th June 2014, 05:28 AM

Prepare for some reading

Displaying Results 1 - 20 of 238
Next Results >
London Port Book, 1567-8 - Nos. 200-299 (Dec 1567 - Jan 1568)

The port and trade of early Elizabethan London: documents

tenon-saws, 6 doz. hand-saws, 6 cwt frying pans, 20 doz. coarse sword blades. 9½ grs small hanging locks, 48 lbs curtain rings, 20 lbs clavichord wire, 10 thou. awl blades £39 12 s (3 Dec 1567). James Harvie: 4 doz. whip-saws £6. John Gardyner: 12 cwt red lead, 4 cwt white lead, 3 qrs white copperas, 2 hd (

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=35954
London Port Book, 1567-8 - Nos. 500-599 (May - June, 1568)

The port and trade of early Elizabethan London: documents

chains, 60 lbs counters, 16 cwt frying pans, 48 doz. coarse sword blades £63 3 s 4 d (29 May 1568). Henry Becher: 109 doz. thou. pins, 203 yds taffeta, 200 half-pcs Genoa fustian £152 10 s . John Lambert: 13 cwt battery £26. Gerson Hills: 38 cwt hemp £38. Richard Hills: 41 cwt hemp £41. John Pasfilde: 1

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=35957
London Port Book, 1567-8 - Nos. 1-99 (Sept - Nov, 1567)

The port and trade of early Elizabethan London: documents

wool £11 13 s 4 d (3 Oct 1567). John Spencer: 220 lbs pepper £18 6 s 8 d . George Breame: 10 cwt battery £20. Edward Jackman: 650 lbs pepper £54 3 s 4 d . Edmund Burton: 3 half-brls head nails, 5 cwt frying pans, 24 doz. coarse sword blades, 7 cwt white plates, 12 hd 'stass' steel, 3 cwt pack thread,

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=35952
London Port Book, 1567-8 - Nos. 600-699 (June - Aug, 1568)

The port and trade of early Elizabethan London: documents

crewel, 4 doz. lbs bottom pack thread £9 10 s . Thomas Parker: 78 pcs dornick with wool £26. Thomas Brasye: 4 bales Ulm fustian £60. Matthew Fyld: 22 pcs grogram camlet, 66 half-pcs Genoa fustian £52 6 s 8 d . John Passfyld: 7 cwt iron wire, 7 cwt iron creepers, 7 doz. coarse sword blades, 1½ cwt black

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=35958
London Port Book, 1567-8 - Nos. 700-799 (Aug - Sept, 1568)

The port and trade of early Elizabethan London: documents

William Hewet: 13 brls rape oil, 2 bales Ulm fustian £46 6 s 8 d . Robert Exton: 4½ cwt madder, 3 nests empty chests, 5 doz. sword blades £8 6 s 8 d . William Ludington: 12 brls rape oil, 3 cwt litmus, 30 lbs sugar candy, 3 cwt almonds, 10 lbs green ginger, 25 lbs verdigris £26 1 s 8 d . Henry Bechar: 41

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=35959
London Port Book, 1567-8 - Nos. 300-399 (Jan - Mar, 1568)

The port and trade of early Elizabethan London: documents

cloves, 64 lbs nutmegs, 20 lbs mace £50 5 s . Edmund Burton: 2 cwt iron wire, 21 doz. chisels, 9 grs hanging locks, 5½ cwt loose black latten, 5 cwt dripping pans, 31 doz. sword blades £51 10 s . Gerson Hills: 7 cwt hemp £7. Richard Byllam: 21 cwt madder £14. Thomas Starkey: 1500 ells minsters £16 13 s 4

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=35955
Appendix II - Descriptive list of commodities

The port and trade of early Elizabethan London: documents

used in tanning and dyeing. Sword blades, 18 Tablemen, 593. Pieces used in board games. Tables, 593; walnut, 792. See also Playing tables, Writing tables Tacks, 465 Taffeta, 18; 'caffaes', 465; Florence, 462; Levant, 45; Lucca ('Lukes'), 465; Spanish, 357; Tours, 156. 'Caffaes', perhaps from caffa, a

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=35962
Cutler Street Warehouses - Cyvyndonelane

A Dictionary of London

Cutler Street Warehouses See Port of London Authority's Warehouses. Cutlers' Company Elections to the Mistery made in 1328 (Cal. L. Bk. E. p. 233). Company incorporated 4 H. VI., uniting three smaller Companies, viz.: the Bladers, forgers of blades ; the makers of Haftes and otherwise garnishers of

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=63101
East Indies - April 1632

Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies and Persia, Volume 8

great, but in small pigs of ¾ cwt.; this Governor will let no man buy it, and will give what he pleases. Quicksilver sent to Agra. John Leachland retained. Twelve hundred ffs. Agra indigo ordained to be bought. Amber beads of good hope, but rough. Amber hopeless. Some sword blades found bad. Presents:

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=71447
Anne - January 1704

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Anne, 1703-4

others, taken before Mathew White, Mayor of Newcastle. Soldart, sworn, says:— Came from Rotterdam about sixteen days since in ballast with flax and sale-[sail-]duck. Brought ten passengers [ details ], whose names he does not know. Landed at Jarrow. Knows nothing of the bundles of sword-blades and hanger

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=59089
Folios lxxi - lxxx - Aug 1408 -

Calendar of letter-books of the city of London: I

workmanship by the Bladesmythes. Thereupon it was agreed that in future a joint scrutiny of blades should from time to time be made by two Masters of the Cutlers and two of the Bladesmythes. Folio lxxi b. Ordinacio int' Cultellar' et Fabros Blade smythes voc'. 12 Oct., 10 Henry IV. [A.D. 1408], came the

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=33680
Journal, January 1777 - Volume 84

Journals of the Board of Trade and Plantations, Volume 14

Order of the Lords of the Privy Council, dated 8th January, 1777, referring to this Board the petition of Thomas Monkland, for leave to export six thousand sword blades to the East Indies, on board the ship Rochford , John Beard, commander. Read an Order of the Lords of the Privy Council, dated January

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=77764
Early Man - Bronze Age

A history of the County of Oxford: Volume 1

(Pl. VI 3 c ), from which also were recovered two so-called rapiers, one 14½ in. long with rounded butt (Pl. VIII 2 a ), the other 15½ in. with square-ended butt and narrower blade, like a third from the river at Reading. Finally, from the Thames come short swords, one 18½ in. long, with two rivets,

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...?compid=101927
Journal, March 1776 - Volume 83

Journals of the Board of Trade and Plantations, Volume 14

Council; vizt. Order of the Lords of the Privy Council, dated February 28th, 1776, referring to this Board, for their consideration and report, the petition of Isaac Pratt, for leave to export ten thousand, five hundred sword blades to the East Indies. Order of the Lords of the Privy Council, dated March

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=77754
November 1656 - An Act for the Exportation of several Commodities of the Breed, Growth and Manufacture of this Commonwealth.

Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660

That it shall and may be lawfull to transport beyond the Seas, into any part in Amity with this Commonwealth, all sorts of Arms: That is to say, Muskets, Carbines, Birding or Fowling Pieces, Pistols, Sword and Rapier Blades, Hilts for Swords, Rapiers, or Daggers, Bandaliers, Pikeheads, Halbert-heads

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=56598
House of Lords Journal Volume 18 - 29 March 1708

Journal of the House of Lords: volume 18

and others: Who brought up a Bill, intituled, "An Act for limiting a Time to Persons to come in and make their Claims to any of the forfeited Estates and other Interests in Ireland , sold by the Trustees for Sale of those Estates to the Governor and Company for making hollow Sword-blades in England ,

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=29663
Index - T

Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 12

778, 779. -, in sword-blades , English with Turkey, 435. -, in tabinets , Venetian watered, 381. -, in tin , English with Constanti nople, 383. -, in Vallonia. See Gall nuts. -, in velvet , Venetian coloured, 381. -, in white-lead , 507, 508. -, in wine , 24, 29, 145, Muscat, 281, 393; from Crete, 872.

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=95735
House of Lords Journal Volume 18 - 1 April 1708

Journal of the House of Lords: volume 18

and make their Claims to any of the forfeited Estates and other Interests in Ireland , sold by the Trustees for Sale of those Estates to the Governor and Company for making hollow Sword-blades in England , and divers other Purchasers." After some Time, the House was resumed. And the Earl of Stamford

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=29666
Volume 5 - September 3-November 14, 1689

Calendar of Treasury Papers, Volume 1

Ann Hutchins for the delivery of certain sword-blades; submitting the consideration of the case to their Lordships as one of compassion, the petitioner's husband being a Dutchman, and by trade a sword-cutler at Rotterdam, having shipped 24 dozen of sword blades to set up in business in England, which

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=79451
Charles I - volume 328 - July 1-17, 1636

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I, 1636-7

July 1-17, 1636 July 1. 1. Petition of Benjamin Stone, blade-maker, on Hounslow Heath, to the King. Upon a petition to his Majesty, petitioner showed the great charge he had been at in perfecting the manufacture of sword blades, and entreated his Majesty to take into his store 2,000 blades, which

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=52691

Next Results >
Displaying Results 1 - 20 of 238

~~~~~~~~~~~

It has been some years ago I started looking at British commerce via this site
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/

Do regiister. as you can build a shelf.

By the third quarter of the 18th century, tens of thousands of blades were being exported by England (many to the East indies). Prior to the 18th century, notesimilar quantities entering London. Then, note the Hollow Sword Company debacle that went on for a couple of decades.

I don't have an answer for the lily

Cheers

GC

Ibrahiim al Balooshi · 11th June 2014, 06:55 PM

After the French revolution it became the habit to erase FDL from blades...

Bravo Hotspur!! on the great details you have placed on Forum...Thanks ...excellent support ya!

Regards,
Ibrahiim al Balooshi.

Jim McDougall · 11th June 2014, 07:58 PM

Outstanding teamwork!!! This is exactly what I meant!! Ibrahiim and Mark thank you for continued support and input. It is truly rewarding to see everybody working together in sharing ideas and material, and Norman and Fernando are super sleuths ( theres that word again Nando

) at finding superbly pertinent examples reflecting important comparisons with everybody else right along with them.

Glen, there you are!!! and I was quietly hoping you would come in here. There are few who have the kind of resources you have on these weapons and you've been at it a long time. Thank you so much for taking the time to add in these valuable resources!!!

We may not have an definite solution as yet to these mysterious fleur de lys stamps on these weapons, but I think we know a heck of a lot more on the use of these distinct symbols as markings than before.

Thank you everybody!!!

Norman McCormick · 11th June 2014, 11:00 PM

Hi Glen,
Many thanks for taking the time and effort in composing your post, much appreciated.
My Regards,
Norman.

Norman McCormick · 11th June 2014, 11:04 PM

Hi,
I would like to thank all who participated in this thread and thread No2. It need not stop here therefore if you have any further input large or small please don't be shy.

Regards to All,
Norman.

Norman McCormick · 17th November 2017, 06:58 PM

http://www.armsregister.com/articles..._cutlasses.pdf

Hi,
The above article garnered from another thread mentions the Fleur de Lys stamp being the mark of a T Hollier 1720-1740.
Regards,
Norman.

P.S. Another thread that mentions Hollier. http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=504

Ibrahiim al Balooshi · 18th November 2017, 03:53 AM

Salaams Norman,..Here is a further link on that T Hollier situation see #6 on ~

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=23367

Norman McCormick · 18th November 2017, 07:14 PM

Hi Ibrahiim,
Many thanks for your interest as always. I had already pinched your excellent link to the Armsregister article (see my post no 35)

but thanks for keeping the thread going.
My Regards,
Norman.

M ELEY · 29th January 2019, 12:22 AM

Omitted in error.

11th June 2014, 06:55 PM	#4
Ibrahiim al Balooshi Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Buraimi Oman, on the border with the UAE Posts: 4,408	After the French revolution it became the habit to erase FDL from blades... Bravo Hotspur!! on the great details you have placed on Forum...Thanks ...excellent support ya! Regards, Ibrahiim al Balooshi. Last edited by Ibrahiim al Balooshi; 11th June 2014 at 07:14 PM.

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11th June 2014, 04:15 AM	#1
Jim McDougall Arms Historian Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Route 66 Posts: 10,193	Norman and Ibrahiim, thank you for the kind words !! I am warned by my wife that any more books in this thing will require much heavier springs!! My hope is that others will be joining in here quid pro quo....I add whatever I can find in order to share as much as I can and there are so many other references out there I don't have here. That's why I implore others who have them to check them and add their notes. On the Scot/French situation. While that was of course a well established alliance and the French language was well spoken in Scotland, the deal with these fleur de lis markings on these basket hilt swords I think not really applicable. These were English blades on British dragoon swords which were typically from Birmingham, and there mostly from Germany (though these FDL blades are still undetermined) . I am beginning to wonder if these fleur de lis blades might have been from St. Etienne? There seem to be a good number found in French mounts, more than I had thought.

11th June 2014, 04:46 AM	#2
M ELEY Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: NC, U.S.A. Posts: 2,141	I'm wondering just how far back the fleur-de-lis really goes on English blades?! I've personally seen at least two of the so-called 'doghead' Englsh naval swords (brass cast monster/dog gripped) from the 1680-1710 period with the above stamp! Early Brit naval hanger baldes from this period often had German blades (the King/crown Wundes family marking comes to mind), so still wondeering if these baldes are German-made imports?

11th June 2014, 05:28 AM	#3
Hotspur Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Nipmuc USA Posts: 508	Prepare for some reading Displaying Results 1 - 20 of 238 Next Results > London Port Book, 1567-8 - Nos. 200-299 (Dec 1567 - Jan 1568) The port and trade of early Elizabethan London: documents tenon-saws, 6 doz. hand-saws, 6 cwt frying pans, 20 doz. coarse sword blades. 9½ grs small hanging locks, 48 lbs curtain rings, 20 lbs clavichord wire, 10 thou. awl blades £39 12 s (3 Dec 1567). James Harvie: 4 doz. whip-saws £6. John Gardyner: 12 cwt red lead, 4 cwt white lead, 3 qrs white copperas, 2 hd ( http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=35954 London Port Book, 1567-8 - Nos. 500-599 (May - June, 1568) The port and trade of early Elizabethan London: documents chains, 60 lbs counters, 16 cwt frying pans, 48 doz. coarse sword blades £63 3 s 4 d (29 May 1568). Henry Becher: 109 doz. thou. pins, 203 yds taffeta, 200 half-pcs Genoa fustian £152 10 s . John Lambert: 13 cwt battery £26. Gerson Hills: 38 cwt hemp £38. Richard Hills: 41 cwt hemp £41. John Pasfilde: 1 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=35957 London Port Book, 1567-8 - Nos. 1-99 (Sept - Nov, 1567) The port and trade of early Elizabethan London: documents wool £11 13 s 4 d (3 Oct 1567). John Spencer: 220 lbs pepper £18 6 s 8 d . George Breame: 10 cwt battery £20. Edward Jackman: 650 lbs pepper £54 3 s 4 d . Edmund Burton: 3 half-brls head nails, 5 cwt frying pans, 24 doz. coarse sword blades, 7 cwt white plates, 12 hd 'stass' steel, 3 cwt pack thread, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=35952 London Port Book, 1567-8 - Nos. 600-699 (June - Aug, 1568) The port and trade of early Elizabethan London: documents crewel, 4 doz. lbs bottom pack thread £9 10 s . Thomas Parker: 78 pcs dornick with wool £26. Thomas Brasye: 4 bales Ulm fustian £60. Matthew Fyld: 22 pcs grogram camlet, 66 half-pcs Genoa fustian £52 6 s 8 d . John Passfyld: 7 cwt iron wire, 7 cwt iron creepers, 7 doz. coarse sword blades, 1½ cwt black http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=35958 London Port Book, 1567-8 - Nos. 700-799 (Aug - Sept, 1568) The port and trade of early Elizabethan London: documents William Hewet: 13 brls rape oil, 2 bales Ulm fustian £46 6 s 8 d . Robert Exton: 4½ cwt madder, 3 nests empty chests, 5 doz. sword blades £8 6 s 8 d . William Ludington: 12 brls rape oil, 3 cwt litmus, 30 lbs sugar candy, 3 cwt almonds, 10 lbs green ginger, 25 lbs verdigris £26 1 s 8 d . Henry Bechar: 41 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=35959 London Port Book, 1567-8 - Nos. 300-399 (Jan - Mar, 1568) The port and trade of early Elizabethan London: documents cloves, 64 lbs nutmegs, 20 lbs mace £50 5 s . Edmund Burton: 2 cwt iron wire, 21 doz. chisels, 9 grs hanging locks, 5½ cwt loose black latten, 5 cwt dripping pans, 31 doz. sword blades £51 10 s . Gerson Hills: 7 cwt hemp £7. Richard Byllam: 21 cwt madder £14. Thomas Starkey: 1500 ells minsters £16 13 s 4 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=35955 Appendix II - Descriptive list of commodities The port and trade of early Elizabethan London: documents used in tanning and dyeing. Sword blades, 18 Tablemen, 593. Pieces used in board games. Tables, 593; walnut, 792. See also Playing tables, Writing tables Tacks, 465 Taffeta, 18; 'caffaes', 465; Florence, 462; Levant, 45; Lucca ('Lukes'), 465; Spanish, 357; Tours, 156. 'Caffaes', perhaps from caffa, a http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=35962 Cutler Street Warehouses - Cyvyndonelane A Dictionary of London Cutler Street Warehouses See Port of London Authority's Warehouses. Cutlers' Company Elections to the Mistery made in 1328 (Cal. L. Bk. E. p. 233). Company incorporated 4 H. VI., uniting three smaller Companies, viz.: the Bladers, forgers of blades ; the makers of Haftes and otherwise garnishers of http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=63101 East Indies - April 1632 Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies and Persia, Volume 8 great, but in small pigs of ¾ cwt.; this Governor will let no man buy it, and will give what he pleases. Quicksilver sent to Agra. John Leachland retained. Twelve hundred ffs. Agra indigo ordained to be bought. Amber beads of good hope, but rough. Amber hopeless. Some sword blades found bad. Presents: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=71447 Anne - January 1704 Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Anne, 1703-4 others, taken before Mathew White, Mayor of Newcastle. Soldart, sworn, says:— Came from Rotterdam about sixteen days since in ballast with flax and sale-[sail-]duck. Brought ten passengers [ details ], whose names he does not know. Landed at Jarrow. Knows nothing of the bundles of sword-blades and hanger http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=59089 Folios lxxi - lxxx - Aug 1408 - Calendar of letter-books of the city of London: I workmanship by the Bladesmythes. Thereupon it was agreed that in future a joint scrutiny of blades should from time to time be made by two Masters of the Cutlers and two of the Bladesmythes. Folio lxxi b. Ordinacio int' Cultellar' et Fabros Blade smythes voc'. 12 Oct., 10 Henry IV. [A.D. 1408], came the http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=33680 Journal, January 1777 - Volume 84 Journals of the Board of Trade and Plantations, Volume 14 Order of the Lords of the Privy Council, dated 8th January, 1777, referring to this Board the petition of Thomas Monkland, for leave to export six thousand sword blades to the East Indies, on board the ship Rochford , John Beard, commander. Read an Order of the Lords of the Privy Council, dated January http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=77764 Early Man - Bronze Age A history of the County of Oxford: Volume 1 (Pl. VI 3 c ), from which also were recovered two so-called rapiers, one 14½ in. long with rounded butt (Pl. VIII 2 a ), the other 15½ in. with square-ended butt and narrower blade, like a third from the river at Reading. Finally, from the Thames come short swords, one 18½ in. long, with two rivets, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...?compid=101927 Journal, March 1776 - Volume 83 Journals of the Board of Trade and Plantations, Volume 14 Council; vizt. Order of the Lords of the Privy Council, dated February 28th, 1776, referring to this Board, for their consideration and report, the petition of Isaac Pratt, for leave to export ten thousand, five hundred sword blades to the East Indies. Order of the Lords of the Privy Council, dated March http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=77754 November 1656 - An Act for the Exportation of several Commodities of the Breed, Growth and Manufacture of this Commonwealth. Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660 That it shall and may be lawfull to transport beyond the Seas, into any part in Amity with this Commonwealth, all sorts of Arms: That is to say, Muskets, Carbines, Birding or Fowling Pieces, Pistols, Sword and Rapier Blades, Hilts for Swords, Rapiers, or Daggers, Bandaliers, Pikeheads, Halbert-heads http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=56598 House of Lords Journal Volume 18 - 29 March 1708 Journal of the House of Lords: volume 18 and others: Who brought up a Bill, intituled, "An Act for limiting a Time to Persons to come in and make their Claims to any of the forfeited Estates and other Interests in Ireland , sold by the Trustees for Sale of those Estates to the Governor and Company for making hollow Sword-blades in England , http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=29663 Index - T Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 12 778, 779. -, in sword-blades , English with Turkey, 435. -, in tabinets , Venetian watered, 381. -, in tin , English with Constanti nople, 383. -, in Vallonia. See Gall nuts. -, in velvet , Venetian coloured, 381. -, in white-lead , 507, 508. -, in wine , 24, 29, 145, Muscat, 281, 393; from Crete, 872. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=95735 House of Lords Journal Volume 18 - 1 April 1708 Journal of the House of Lords: volume 18 and make their Claims to any of the forfeited Estates and other Interests in Ireland , sold by the Trustees for Sale of those Estates to the Governor and Company for making hollow Sword-blades in England , and divers other Purchasers." After some Time, the House was resumed. And the Earl of Stamford http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=29666 Volume 5 - September 3-November 14, 1689 Calendar of Treasury Papers, Volume 1 Ann Hutchins for the delivery of certain sword-blades; submitting the consideration of the case to their Lordships as one of compassion, the petitioner's husband being a Dutchman, and by trade a sword-cutler at Rotterdam, having shipped 24 dozen of sword blades to set up in business in England, which http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=79451 Charles I - volume 328 - July 1-17, 1636 Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I, 1636-7 July 1-17, 1636 July 1. 1. Petition of Benjamin Stone, blade-maker, on Hounslow Heath, to the King. Upon a petition to his Majesty, petitioner showed the great charge he had been at in perfecting the manufacture of sword blades, and entreated his Majesty to take into his store 2,000 blades, which http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=52691 Next Results > Displaying Results 1 - 20 of 238 ~~~~~~~~~~~ It has been some years ago I started looking at British commerce via this site http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ Do regiister. as you can build a shelf. By the third quarter of the 18th century, tens of thousands of blades were being exported by England (many to the East indies). Prior to the 18th century, notesimilar quantities entering London. Then, note the Hollow Sword Company debacle that went on for a couple of decades. I don't have an answer for the lily Cheers GC

11th June 2014, 07:58 PM	#5
Jim McDougall Arms Historian Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Route 66 Posts: 10,193	Outstanding teamwork!!! This is exactly what I meant!! Ibrahiim and Mark thank you for continued support and input. It is truly rewarding to see everybody working together in sharing ideas and material, and Norman and Fernando are super sleuths ( theres that word again Nando ) at finding superbly pertinent examples reflecting important comparisons with everybody else right along with them. Glen, there you are!!! and I was quietly hoping you would come in here. There are few who have the kind of resources you have on these weapons and you've been at it a long time. Thank you so much for taking the time to add in these valuable resources!!! We may not have an definite solution as yet to these mysterious fleur de lys stamps on these weapons, but I think we know a heck of a lot more on the use of these distinct symbols as markings than before. Thank you everybody!!!

11th June 2014, 11:00 PM	#6
Norman McCormick Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 1,613	Hi Glen, Many thanks for taking the time and effort in composing your post, much appreciated. My Regards, Norman.

11th June 2014, 11:04 PM	#7
Norman McCormick Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 1,613	Hi, I would like to thank all who participated in this thread and thread No2. It need not stop here therefore if you have any further input large or small please don't be shy. Regards to All, Norman.

17th November 2017, 06:58 PM	#8
Norman McCormick Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 1,613	http://www.armsregister.com/articles..._cutlasses.pdf Hi, The above article garnered from another thread mentions the Fleur de Lys stamp being the mark of a T Hollier 1720-1740. Regards, Norman. P.S. Another thread that mentions Hollier. http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=504

18th November 2017, 03:53 AM	#9
Ibrahiim al Balooshi Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Buraimi Oman, on the border with the UAE Posts: 4,408	Salaams Norman,..Here is a further link on that T Hollier situation see #6 on ~ http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=23367

18th November 2017, 07:14 PM	#10
Norman McCormick Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 1,613	Hi Ibrahiim, Many thanks for your interest as always. I had already pinched your excellent link to the Armsregister article (see my post no 35) but thanks for keeping the thread going. My Regards, Norman.

29th January 2019, 12:22 AM	#11
M ELEY Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: NC, U.S.A. Posts: 2,141	Omitted in error.