Originally Posted By: ellenbr
A guess was that is was an early recipe for Rchling's Special Steel with some percentages of Wolfram, Nickel & Chrome and possible others. It was an attempt by the descendants of Johann Gottfried Rchling, either sons or nephews, that were developing a steel to compete with Poldi's Antikorro/Anticorro. I'm sure there is much more to the story. I'm curious of V. Chr. Treibel had the alloy steel market cornered and was also the source for this too? Any Triebel marks underneath?

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Raimey
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Chrome Vanadium steels (AISI 6150) were/are an alloyed steel grade developed in France by J. Forqualt, who also perfected the electric melt furnace, to replace the Bessemer and BOF techniques used then to produce alloyed steels. Henry Ford discovered this in a 1906 trip to France--Wolfram is no longer used in electric melting steel production, but in the 1900's it was a form of a stabilizer, similar to silicone--Nice to know the Frogs can do something besides smell badly and drown their food in sauces and gravies of various sorts--

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