Omani kattara

[Ibrahiim al Balooshi]

Originally Posted by A.alnakkas

Yes its indeed Tariq's shop. Who happened not to know you, Ibrahim alBaloushi from Alburaimi, owns a shop, has a hypothesis about Omani swords? doesnt ring a bell. No offence is intended. Everything was once a rehilt, its more of an issue whether it was used by its last culture or was made specifically for the purpose of selling to tourists. Its a world different.

Salaams A.alnakkas, Well of course he knows me...He is my cousin !

I suppose the confusion is understandable in the blades ... This is largely connected to the truck loads of imported blades that came in from Ethiopia via Yemen ... My thread refers... but you must be aware that you were right there in the absolute pinnacle position standing staring right at the master forger... You couldnt get much closer... There you were talking to the man who since 1970 (and his Father) who are solely responsible for the incredible fiasco surrounding the entire game of hilt and rehilt, of import and export, of illusion and fact ...

Thousands of blades have gone through that workshop and out into the world to the point that an entirely fictional weapon has surfaced... I think it is incredible, amazing and utterly unbelievable. The (almost) entire ethnographic fraternity has been ...tricked??...mislead? wrong footed? ... and you were standing in front of the mystro...and like many other ethnographic specialists you have been well and truly given the treatment... down to his private collection...

He has some great weapons ...mostly rehilts and has even a few museum pieces... I mean ...rehilts in Museums.... So if he has fooled museums it is no wonder he has sold loads to others....

So now that you have seen the light.. I hope... do you see the truth....or not?

Regards,
Ibrahiim al Balooshi.