[TheForge] historical blacksmithing questions

[dann at wctatel.net]

Wasn't Davy Crocket's or Jim Bowie's  fighting knife reportedly fabricated
using meteorite metal ?

Re Nazi- Buddhist Art
Good art,  but putting this all together...

The Buddhist statue- carving, made from the meteorite with the carving
done an estimated at,  or about the Year One Thousand.  The meteorite is
believed to have fallen 10,000 years ago, and the image is a a guy with an
ear ring and a  big hat and swastica on his chest, and his hand on his
groin, with his armour having a special very male protrusion.  Is it all
about a manual on how an early Nazi gets relief ?

Cheers,

Dann


> speaking of meteorites:
>
> Buddhist statue samples match space rocks in Chinga meteorite field
>
> An iron Buddhist statue, brought by the Nazi party of Germany to
> Europe, was made from a meteorite that likely fell along the
> Mongolian and Siberian border 10,000 years ago, according to a study
> by a team of researchers including Elmar Bucher of Stuttgart
> University. An analysis of statue samples showed they closely match
> the known space rocks that scattered from the border's Chinga
> meteorite field. LiveScience.com (9/26)
>
> <http://www.livescience.com/23483-nazi-buddha-carved-meteorite.html>http://www.livescience.com/23483-nazi-buddha-carved-meteorite.html
>
>
> steve
>
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