It's here, it's here
Our local library was able to get a photocopy through the ASU library of
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. 16, No. 9, May 1958. An article was written by Stephen Grancsay, Curator of Arms and Armor "The new Galleries of Oriental Arms and Armor"
A new exhibit was opened to showcase the museum's extensive collection of arms and armor from India, Persia, Turkey, Japan, and Indonesia. Most of the article was devoted to swords and armor, and a c. 1600s Turkish shield was picture with a damascened pattern similar to 'Stars and Stripes' damascus.
from p. 249
The usual designation of a blade of watered (Wootz) steel is 'Damascus blade,' a name merely derived from a trading post of the caravans of East and West. It is well known, however, that the metal for the noted Damascus blades of medieval times was not made at Damascus but at Kona Samundrum near Nirma in Haiderabad. The finest blades seem to have been always made in Persia, often from imported Indian steel. Of all the signatures of oriental bladesmiths the most famous is that of Asadullah of Ispahan, the bladesmith of Shah Abbas the Great (1587-1628)...
Indonesian 'Kris' and Japanese blades are also discussed.
Little is said regarding the firearms in the collection BUT this is on p. 248
Their laminated steel-twist barrels were brought to a high state of perfection.
It was after Napoleon's expedition to Egypt that Damascus barrels were sent to Europe and achieved so high a reputation that the method of making them was copied. In this process bars of iron and steel were placed in regular alterations and welded into one bar; then this bar, or several of them placed together, was twisted spirally and the whole welded. The patterns, like those on blade of watered steel, are intricate and ofter elegant.
A c. 1600s Turkish miquelet is shown with easily identifiable but crude Two Iron Crolle, and NOT twist.
Not alot of answers, but at least we know Two Iron Crolle barrels were being used by the Turks in the 1600s.
