1818 Article on Watering Persian Swords

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Manolo,

Pretty much agree with everything you say, what I thought was interesting was that this was published in 1818 and had a description from the time of use.

Based on how we rewater blades today what is done in the article seems unneccessay......

On the other hand, what if that is how blades were truely rewatered at the time of use and we could reproduce an actual finish which any restorer of Persian blades will tell you is very, very difficult. Was just a very interesting article on a rarely published subject at that time.

The is another article from the same magazine on the rewatering of Persian gun barrels will post later, am a slow typer and takes me a while to copy these.

rand