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Have you seen any other Rodgers razors with the Sanskrit stamp? Or any other razors at all? (other than the Stodart ones)

Reading a lot of period literature on the subject has just confused me...

It does indeed exhibit patterning, but like you say, it's the same as any number of other crucible steels I've seen. A couple of my Wade & Butchers have much more prominent Brownian-motion tracers...

This is the curse of being a writer, I have a permanent case of L'esprit d'escalier. Now that I've sat on it for a day I know better how to say what I mean about it.

I think it's very likely that...

Ore was pretty regularly imported (it really helps to be on a river that can support huge barges) and the government was certainly doing a ... brisk ... business with India at the time. It's not...

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I'd never seen any blades but Stoddart stamped with the Sanskrit 'wootz. In all likelihood, the blade is made with steel refined from...