Photo's of various types of watered steels

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I don't believe I have taken up enough bandwith so let me provide some more close up shots. The second grouping:

1) This is a bold active pattern from an early Persian wootz blade.

2) This is an interesting wootz pattern due to the vertical striping that shows up in the pattern. I do not know what that is from. Probably Turkish, possibly Persian

3) This is a bold active pattern from a slightly later Persian wootz blade than #1

4) This is from an Indian Shamshir and is common for Indian wootz. It exhibits a very tight pattern of low contrast.

5) This is from a Caucasian Shaska and is actually forged by Russian smiths. I will call it Zlatoust wootz.

6) This is from a Turkish Kilij and is wootz and of the pattern typically referred to as Sham.