I have several pulwars, most of them” with”unusual” features. But I can’t recall such an unusual yelman and double “jaws”.
On the other hand, “ oddities” are practically expected: Afghanistan did not have regulation weapons till the very end of the 19th century, all earlier examples were made in different arsenals and small workshops. The same is true about all other bladed weapons, from pseudo-shashkas to Mahsud ch’hurras. To a large measure this heterogeneity might be the most attractive ( at least for me) feature that vanished later on. It is a pity nobody can investigate this question and the identical twins of government-regulated ones somehow do not excite me.
If you do not mind, when I finally recover my post-omicron energy I might add some of mine to your example for general discussion.
Meanwhile, my congratulations together with a not insignificant dollop of envy:-)
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