Thank you all for this incredible, high-level commentary! Ian, your insight on the underlying carbon distribution in these 19th-century matrices is spot on, and Alan, I completely agree that hard physical testing is the only way to move past 2D photographic guesswork.To answer your call for material validation, I have spent the afternoon coordinating logistics with an industrial engineering foundry right here in my local area.We have finalized an intake agreement for tomorrow morning. We will be utilizing their permanent laboratory spectrometer to run high-precision chemical weight-percentage readouts across the prepared bare-metal window of this specific piece.Using a stationary foundry machine will give us the exact mathematical data sheet we need to check the Manganese, Chromium, Vanadium, and Carbon levels .I look forward to posting the official certified foundry chemistry percentages here as soon as the machine runs tomorrow morning!
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