Thanks Oliver for your interpretation of the date. Surely makes more sense than 1732. But still, it is strange to write a date and ommit the last digit, ins't it?
There are different traditions of writing dates and in Israel/Palestine and Jordan, the Gregorian date (after WW1) is used and it is written in Arabic numericals-exactly the opposite.
Anyway, I have also bought a koummiya recently of a quite common type and no special merrit, but I beleive it to be old and genuine. I was wondering if anybody knows, or can reffer me to a source about the regional attribution of koummiya styles.
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