Choora: where from?

[ariel]

Looks like a regular Choora from Afghanistan. However, it is decorated with a line of small turquoises at the bolster on each side, in a Central Asian ( Bukhara, Khiva) fashion.
Did the Afghani ( Mahsood) use the technique?

[Lew]

Ariel

I agree it does has a Bukharan look to it. The ones I have seen usually have enamel paint instead of stones as does the one pictured below. Yours a nice and different example.

[Tatyana Dianova]

Hi Ariel,
It is a very nice old Choora that you have! I haven’t seen anything like this before - I mean a silver panel with turquoises on this kind of dagger… I have a Choora with similar handle and blade, but without this decoration. I do not think that it is a Bukhara dagger anyway :) Mine has an old worn Arabian tag on the scabbard, maybe it can clear something concerning exact origin of this type of Choora...