Thank you Toby.
John Brindle, author of
Shotgun Shooting: Techniques & Technology published a 5 Part series in
The Double Gun Journal “Black Powder & Smokeless, Damascus & Steel”.
Volume 5, Issue 1, 1994 discussed the 1891 Birmingham Proof House Trial
The report was originally published in “The Field” March 7, 1891 Vol 77:325 and reproduced in
Sporting Guns and Gunpowders: Comprising a Selection from Reports of Experiments, and Other Articles Published in the “Field” Newspaper, Relative to Firearms and Explosives by Frederick Toms, 1897
http://books.google.com/books?id=inQCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA9 and
Experts on Guns and Shooting, G.T. Teasdale-Buckel, 1900
http://books.google.com/books?id=4xRmHkr7Lp8C&pg=PA538&sourceA review of the 1891 Report is here
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cvqRzkg0wEjhAAcFWr8gFi7aPFRsSIJ_hahfDxmrNAU/edit?tab=t.0Damascus Quality
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YJxP1k3PzmtmrG1HEGxd8X6g0-1GL0KNY8WMIMkdKr0/edit?tab=t.0
