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					Originally Posted by  awdaniec666
					 
				 
				... My quick search has not brought more informations about that maker, except for a "John Morell & Co. - since 1827" on an antique folding knife... 
			
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 Mind you Patrick, that folding knife is a marketing gift from the meat processor 
John Morrel ... not Morell; has nothing to do with your sword.
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				... has few chips here and there but that could have been kids playing with it. 
			
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 I appreciate such honest and realistic assumption; in general, folks like to think that chips are signs of battle; maybe one in a thousand, i would guess 

.. I recall, when in my youth, helping to vandalize a friend's grandfather military sabre.