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Originally Posted by mahratt
Hi Kubur.
I am sure that this is part stamp of arsenal (factory workshops) in Kabul "Mashin Khana". Here are examples of these hallmarks in comparison with the stamp on the shamshir.
The arsenal in Mazar-i-Sharif was exclusively engaged in the repair of artillery guns and rifles. In Bukhara, there has never been a mass center for the production of weapons in which stamps similar to that stamp are placed, which we see on shamshir and other objects from Afghanistan.
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Thank you for a great article here... but I think the arsenal at mashin khana made weapons as well as repairing. They also copied a lot of European weapons and munitions...as well as non weapon equipments.
From the Gutenberg please see ~
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mashin khana was initially organized around machinery for the production of weapons and military supplies, and by 1891 separate workshops were producing rifles, cannons, ammunition, and boots. However, the workshops were continually expanded to encompass activities far beyond the production of military supplies alone. During Abd al-Rahman's reign the mashin khana was broadened to include stamping, dyeing, minting, lithographic printing, and weaving equipment, as well as flour mills, saw mills, distilleries, tanneries, steam hammers, and lathes. New machines constantly arrived in Kabul, and existing ones were continually upgraded and refurbished. In the late 1890s about one hundred machines, between four and five thousand local workers, and dozens of European and Indian experts and foremen employed at the mashin khana were churning out agricultural implements, candles, carpets, clothes, coats, coins, food, glass, soap, kilns, liquor, needles, paper, and soda pop,
in addition to weaponry, most of which imitated European models.
As local craftsmen were incorporated into the mashin khana the chains of authority and gradations of prestige within Kabul's artisanal communities were transformed in significant ways. Europeans contracted by Abd al-Rahman were grafted over the local social hierarchies and institutions mentioned earlier. Indian mistaris, the subcontracted assistants to the British mechanics and engineers employed at the mashin khana by Abd al-Rahman, were also interposed over and within the existing chains of authority, expertise, and resource management of local artisanal groups.
The Europeans, Indians, and Afghans appointed by and responsible to Abd al-Rahman also influenced the residual Kabul bazaar production regimen by periodically siphoning human, technical, and material resources from those labor communities that were not fully encompassed by the workshop project. The mashin khana was the institutional locus for the reconfiguration of social relations within and between the various local labor communities in Kabul and beyond, as well as between those professional networks and the Durrani state.''Unquote.
In respect of the stamp I think this contains the crossed cannon barrels at the base of the mashin khana stamp...and the faded religious structure can be seen supporting that supposition. many weapons were taken on board and stamped at mashin khana not just the weapons made there...stamped coinage is also an indicator of style in this regard see below~