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Originally Posted by Ibrahiim al Balooshi
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.
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He also sold items to the National Museum which used alot of his items for their inventory. Here goes the source you are using, since you claim he sells fakes and tricked even museums...
And yes, you are probably related to the other 3 million baloushis all over the world. Tariq and I have spoken extensively about other sellers and he have guided me to different sellers in Nizwa, Fanja and other areas that were too distant for me to visit. I mentioned you and your hypothesis, it doesnt ring a bell to him. I told him about rehilts, he showed me some and the guy was decent enough to tell me about recently redressed swords even before I asked.
Yet we have someone here selling an 40$ sword for 1500$ by using false information claiming others to be frauds.