Yeah, this is a Betteridge's Law kind of case. I mean, there's zero evidence for this trade happening and no reason at all to believe it wasn't simultaneously

Yeah, this is a Betteridge's Law kind of case. I mean, there's zero evidence for this trade happening and no reason at all to believe it wasn't simultaneously invented. So... no. It wasn't. It plausibly could have been, but there's no evidence. So no.