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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;the blacksmith, post: 9470815, member: 20148&quot;]I doubt that is a proof test. These were serious tests, that left a very visible imprint of the ball.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]443090[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Some are much more obvious than this one, which was probably a pistol ball. I used to have one quite similar to the one shown above some years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately, the marks are not clear enough to indicate a maker, at least judging from the pictures so far.&nbsp; And the picture of the edge of the breastplate, what I would like to see is an actual picture of the edge, edge on so to speak. This may tell us something of how the plate was manufactured, simple one piece of iron, or layers of metal, but the lack of a proof mark makes this seem unlikely to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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