In 1993, it was bought by Sheffield Steel, which declared bankruptcy.
It was Sheffield steel for Indian silks, and the two worlds never really met.
It was eight inches of Sheffield steel with a bone handle, and it had been honed to a razor edge.
The cutlasses were of good Sheffield steel, with plain wooden hilts and basket guards.
The 36-inch double-edged blade is lenticular in cross section and hand-forged out of the finest Sheffield steel.
Sheffield Steel Roller Girls practise three times a week with extra sessions outdoors during the summer.
Some Mahratta cavalry bravely tried to stem the charge, but their light tulwars were no match for Sheffield steel.
The live concert also included "Seven Days" and "Shocked", which were released in studio version a year later on Sheffield Steel (1982).
(It was, in Bacon's view, the prospect of a residuary fortune from Sheffield steel that persuaded his father to propose to his mother.)