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Thanks for your understanding.
Chris -- 2018-04-11
Plenty of google hits for both, some may be typos but I doubt all of them are.
Enough hits that I’m not going to bother linking to any…
Perhaps people are thinking you make the marks, the gravings, on the end of the object? More likely, they may be thinking of the sharp end of the engravers tool. That end, doing the graving on the item.
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