I think many here are taking my statement as an attack. It was not. It was a statement as to documentation, and the requirement for such. Reasonable thought must come into play for without it one can argue the item never existed. A simple example; if there is no documentation of what material(s) European ramrods were made of back in the period (for argument, we have one reply that “it looked like Beech!” from 1972, which is considered historical to the time period of the 1970’s) then by the lack of this documentation, the ramrod did not exist!
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