~~~ more people would have known.

They could have simply been part of a shipment destined for Cuba to be sold off somewhere in fhe Amedicas and remained unused since they were all worn down except for a few that are in their original state of preservation of which I have only two examples available at $390 each. The only thing we ( I )don't know is where did they become so worn since unknown in Spain....?

I sure sold a lot of fhe worn examples fo J. Bennon and P. Marshall in 1998.