I recall a Damascus tread last fall that had 35,000 hits before I dropped out and headed south for the winter. Given the interest in the topic, let me mention a book now at auction on eBay:
#250249482391 William Greener's The Gun. London, 1834/35
Not for everyone because the seller has some sense of its value and the starting bid is almost $1,2000. But what an addition to a gun room library for someone who lives and breaths the topic of Damascus-type forged iron and steel barrels.
There is a 1971 reprint by Donald B. McLean and Normount Technical Publications of Forest Grove OR, which is also a rare find, but not quite so pricey. By the way, William Greener is the father of the much better known gunmaker and author, William Wellington (W. W.) Greener, who wrote the much expanded latter-day version: The Gun and its Development (1881 et seq.). Ed Muderlak
