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Old 29th August 2017, 04:52 PM   #5
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This looks like patterned wootz to me (folded cast steel). Plain folded patterns are usually more homogenized steels worked together with few voids, rather than one cake of wootz being manipulated with a minimum of being beat on. There are grades of wootz/cast as well.

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