Brewer's: Toledo

Famous for its swords. “The temper of Toledan blades is such that they are sometimes packed in boxes, curled up like the mainsprings of watches”!! Both Livy and Polybius refer to them.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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