Quote Originally Posted by Voidmonster View Post
It's actually the pair that Lohar posted pictures of. I tracked down the eBay buyer who got them, made an unrefusable offer, and then patiently waited 15 months. (well, about 8 of those months were spent with me moving from one end of California to the other). He cleaned them up (quite nicely!) before I got them. CSquare, faaaar back toward the beginning, has a different pair of them.

They were manufactured by James Stodart's nephew, David. There's an advertisement for them a few pages back, found in the British Newspaper archives. David and Samuel sold them from about a year before James died until some unknown point after, but no later than 1836. I'd guess they didn't sell them for very long though because the raw materials were hellishly expensive.

I think it's now safe to say that these alloys DO weather time noticeably better than regular carbon steel.
So, the most important question would be, have a shave with them, and let us know if you get super powers after....

If you do, I call dibs on next up!