Hello Jim,
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There are quite a few guys around here who know these kinds of 'watered steel' blades, and I am about as far from a metallurgist as they come. I have always been under the impression that a faux Damascus was etched or somehow produced on the blade.
However, I know that while the mystery of wootz making was pretty much lost, in Germany and I think Russia, the skilled artisans did achieve some level of the cherished steel sometime in the 19th c.
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"Echt-Damast" doesn't refer to wootz but rather a pattern-welded blade (made from laminated steel). As Detlef said, the maker does claim it to be real PW. For most of the blade this seems true (from the back of the blade, top of the close-up), whereas along the edge (lower side of the pic) there seems to be some faux pattern added by wax resist etching!
Regards,
Kai