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It's a murky area.

They may very well have come from billets of steel sourced out of India -- the Empire was certainly exporting plenty of other goods. But the truth is that all that stuff got...

I'd say 1830-1850ish on the Elliot (probably earlier than later), 1840-1870 on the W&B and I'd need to see the stamp on the Rodgers to be sure, but probably middle Victorian -- 1850-1870.

The Wade...