Once again, the more the think you know, the less you really do!
Mark: the pattern certainly looks like two 1/2 scrolls between each ribband weld BUT Dr Gaddy's One Iron example seems to show one 'smashed and smudged' full scroll between the weld lines
On the ? Boston pattern, I'm calling the round and symmetric scroll as the center, with two 1/2 scrolls on each side (that don't form another round scroll) =Two Iron.
And re: the 'stars' between the scrolls, you can identify some that are 1/2 black (iron) and 1/2 white (steel)! Since we're looking end-on at the twisted billet of alternating iron and steel, the size of the 'star' depends on how small and tightly wound the rod was. And it seems the higher quality Crolle has smaller scrolls and 'stars' between them. And the color of the star depends on which tiny rod within the billet happened to be on the
outside of that twist? Please tell me that makes sense
And I just read in a Double Gun Classics e-zine that Daniel Wesson is reported to have ordered 400 sets of barrels from a Belgian source, 200 of which had "Wesson" spelled out in the damascus pattern. Has anyone seen one?
