Bob;
I certainly tand to agree with you that it is highly unlikely that WW used any mat'l as low grade as that which his father referred to as the Two-Penny. That was why I went back & added the PS. As I uinderstood him that was all iron with no steel in it at all. I do though have serious doubts that by the time your bbls were made if the "Real" stub twist was even still being produced. These were composed of pulled wrought iron horseshoe nail stubs & chopped up steel from coach springs. I think that by WW's time making bbls from "Scrap" was mostly a thing of the past.
