Well, legimate proof marks don't contain misspelt words.

Again, I haven't seen much, but on every gun I've seen, when a marking on a gun says 'steel', it also specifies which steel. Krupp steel, best quality steel, Sir Whitworth's Fluid Compressed Steel... Laminated Steel, Damascus Steel - yes, those were counted as steel, so it hardly means 'not damascus'.

Yes, I am thinking out loud smile