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At this moment there is a complete separation between the current archives research and the artifacts themselves. Spain has probably the best records of the crown workshops, but their products are just now starting to be identified.
The books by Vicente Toledo are great because he has tried exhaustively to picture every Spanish sword known to him. I believe however many of the identifications he made are not well aimed.
The first caveat with Spanish swords up to 1850 is that their current hilts are often not the original ones.

To the mess described in the previous post you have to add another two more layers of confussion. It seems the Barcelona blades were well considered, so around 1775, Solingen, started making copies with the same mottoes. Some years later in the revolutionary war with France in 1793, and the 1808 invasion, the French captured many of these swords, originals and copies, and rehilted them as war trophies. Those dragoon blades from the 1760s, you also find them with French 1767 elite coompany hilts, or cavalry hilts from around 1810, in the empire style.

Then some of those swords, with blades already 70 years old, took part in the Spanish Carlist wars. And some of their mottoes were attributed with new meanings and intentions.

I am planning to write a couple of articles in English clarifying this conundrum.