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			Join Date: Dec 2004 
				Location: Portugal 
				
				
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			Espaderos were not so good in writing as in forging blades, Fernando  
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
	 .The only letter of the motto i was not sure of, was the H, as this part of my blade was rather worn. But i happened to locate the mentioning of a shell guard sword (item #234) in the Portuguese/Spanish exhibition of 1882 in Lisbon, with the same motto and precisely the same words ... and with the H included. Also the Christ crucified symbols were present in the ricasso. Such sword belonged to D. Jaquim Garcia Toledo from Lisbon.  | 
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