Shokran for all the comments and also the great research! I do appreciate it!
Here was me thinking it was a glorified leather working tool
but I'm happy with my tantric ritual item
Salam Spiral, ya from my visit earlier this year, i think that % has increased to the high 90's now.... Interestingly after talking to some local curio shop owners there, they said many Tibetans/Chinese have been coming to Nepal to buy back artifacts that previous generations had sold to them.