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The Hawcroft lineage is even more confusing than I found it to be all that time ago when I first looked into it - so much so that it deserves a mini-update.

William Hawcroft (senior) born ca1801...

Excellent Tom - the scales were probably from the pressings they used to make silver handles for knife and fork canteens of cutlery - two halves silver-soldered together, then the tang inserted after...