Hi Jim
#98 second sentence "Many are known, because of their histories, to have been used in this country" Not quantified further, group b had 30% fewer cavities than group a
You'll like the one attached below.
#93 Again a quantitative and subjective relationship in influence. Much more so when in the 1840s and beyond, Horstmann and others flood the market with Solingen made long neck French style eagles (note the dateline again). Of many hundreds of eagles shown in the elder Mowbray's bible and in the Medicus collection indexing, the French made eagles genuinely pale not just in production numbers but also lacking the diversity of the swarm of English made eagles. Again, look to early influences and desire, the eagles main eyrie (sp) of eggs was English, balls or not.
#63 Jim, it is easy to cherry pick such a statement by Peterson and disregard the rest of that chapter. Forty years after that book was published it again becomes a quantitative falsehood. Did many favor French eagles? I don't see it from the numbers end.
There are certainly a good many other swords that could be mentioned in several books, for instance the Lattimer collection and other examples from Peterson that are French but it doesn't carry the weight of conviction to me (nor does the elder Mowbray's eagle pommel book) They are all a starting point for me rather than books of absolutes.
You'll like this one from S&K
Oh, yes, while you have #93 in mind, note that he misidentifies #91 as wholly American made, while returning in Mowbray's 1990s eagles as now known to have been from Thurkle
Cheers
GC