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VARIETIES OF SHOT-GUNS, ETC. 



An imitation of these twists, as practised by the Belgians, 

 is well represented in the annexed engraving, which shows 



fig. lie 



IMITATION DAMASCUS. (HALF SIZE.) 



the extent to which this fraud is carried. But by comparing 

 the factitious surface with the real, it will be seen that there 

 is an important point in which the former fails, consisting in 

 the broken line which so constantly occurs in it; while in 

 the real article the fibre, though equally tortuous, is almost 

 always continuous. Sometimes, however, the deception is 

 so clever that it requires great skill to discover it, and even 

 in the gun from which the above illustration was taken, a 

 common observer might readily pass it as perfectly genuine. 

 Wire Twist, or Stub Twist, is made nearly in the same way 

 as Damascus, but is less twisted, and displays the following 

 appearance when browned : 



Fig. J2 



STUB TWIST. 



(HALF SIZE.) 



The manufacture of laminated steel has also been alluded 

 to at page 213, where an extract from Mr. Greener's treatise 



