If what Hugh Lomas says is true, and it does sound very plausible, wouldn't it be fairly easy to confirm by draw filing and then rust bluing one of these actions by the same process used to blue or brown Damascus barrels? Since the case hardening infusion of carbon into the pure iron rods would only be a few thousandths thick, subsequent hammer welding and forging of the fagg*t would not give a homogenous steel product, but something more akin to an action forged of layers of iron and steel, i.e. Damascus. Rust bluing followed by etching would leave the high carbon areas blue/black while the pure iron areas would be etched white.

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