Damascus Steel in Legend and in Reality

Authors

  • Carlo Panseri

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/gladius.1965.188

Abstract


Anyone who follows the ancient and glorious history of arms, whether as a collector or as a student, has surely in his reading often run across the term damascened steel or Damascus steel, or simply damascus, applied (not always in correct or pertinent fashion) to the constituent materials of edged weapons or of the barrels of firearms.

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Published

1965-12-30

How to Cite

Panseri, C. (1965). Damascus Steel in Legend and in Reality. Gladius, 4, 5–66. https://doi.org/10.3989/gladius.1965.188

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