I enjoyed looking back through the reference on these weapons and would note that these are being turned out in Afghanistan today for the market e.g. Chicken Street, Kabul. They are surprisingly well made and judging by the amount of time I spent in a nearby workshop watching the processes I can vouch for their high quality. These are now items brought home to the west and will no doubt continue to surface down the decades ..They are sometimes quite surprisingly excellent and difficult to ignore...I wish I had collected a few as dinner table bread knives on a central cutting board...Much of the work is done cross legged on the floor with not even a light bulb overhead... Some are apprentice pieces and others for the remains of a once busy tourist market..Ibrahiim al Balooshi.
