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Post by Adventurer'sBlade on Mar 15, 2020 14:06:57 GMT
At least... not for the user. The smith may have suffered from repeated exposure and fumes.
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Post by paulmuaddib on Mar 15, 2020 14:11:00 GMT
I hadn’t thought about the maker just the person handling it in practice. So sounds like what happened to people who worked with lead until they found out the danger. And radium (I think that’s what it is called) with watch making. Kinda, yeah - or asbestos, for that matter. Yeah. I had to take an asbestos removal class for a previous employer. Just a little piece of trivia about it, they used it in the movie industry back in the early days. In ‘The Wizard of Oz’ when they are running across the poppy field toward the Emerald City the snow is asbestos being shaken from a framed screen. Lots of examples of that. Hope I/we haven’t derailed this thread about a very cool find.
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Post by MOK on Mar 15, 2020 19:02:59 GMT
At least... not for the user. The smith may have suffered from repeated exposure and fumes. Exactly. It's the lifelong professional exposure that would make it a serious health hazard. There have been some hypotheses linking the possible consequences of habitual exposure to arsenic and other such toxins to some metalworking myths, e.g. why Hephaestos/Vulcan was lame and ugly, but personally I think they're all a little too speculative at this point...
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Post by Adventurer'sBlade on Mar 15, 2020 19:33:01 GMT
Could be. Also could be an Ancient World version of inclusivity, telling lame, ugly guys they will be considered real people if they at least reach a level of excellence in a skilled trade.
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