[Jim McDougall]

This I found in "Small Arms Makers", Col. Robert Gardiner, 1963.

MOST perplexing! This reference shows this mark remarkably like the bushy tail fox of Shotley, but to Austrian maker of Steyr...1620?
This reference seems pretty reliable, so the mysteries of Shotley deepen. This is the ONLY time I have seen the BTF in this sort of context, and wish there was some note on how or where it was found.
Steyr in upper Austria was center of many conflicts during Thirty Years War when it was under rule of Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria, and the Peasant War of Upper Austria in 1626 took place, There was a tradition of arms making in later years there, and wonder if Oleys might have had any connection?
It is an intriguing thought.....I had always thought the bushy tail fox was sort of a parody of the Solingen running wolf, but perhaps Oleys had these kinds of connections ?

Though digressing from the topic, these markings have been curious as long as we've discussed Shotley.

In "The Catalog of the Sword Collection at York Castle Museum", P.R. Newman 1985:
CA833 (p.51) is an English hanger of Hounslow type hilt with blade marked with a 'RUNNING HORSE' ?
CA822 (p.49) another hanger of Hounslow type with blade marked with 'RUNNING DOG'? with letter H incorporated.....suggestion made for a 'Birmingham maker, Harvey'? Obviously this refers to Samuel Harvey of Birmingham, but he was much later, mid 18th c. with SH within the figure not just H.