In England damascus production had stopped. The Belgians continued into the 1930's.

In part, the huge WWI increase in steel production contributed to this. The steel industry needed to find other outlets for it's products and focused in part on sporting arms.

Smokeless powders really came into their own at this time, again a result of WWI.

Coupled with rising labor costs across Europe, this lead to the decline and eventual demise of damascus on a massed produced scale. The guilds had been on the wane for nearly 30 years.

In Belgium, some of the large arms makers turned their attention to the production of the automobile.

Pete

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