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Old 2nd November 2011, 01:58 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by AJ1356
The Mosque in the Afghan crest is pretty much a made believe mosque, I don't believe it was never to resemble a certain mosque in Afghanistan. The crest on this knife resembles the crest Afghanistan had towards the late 80's ( end of communist era ). The text reads Saakht e Abdul Waadid ساخت عبدالواحد which means made by Abdul Waahid. Afghanistan was not known as Afghanisan in 1132 (Solar, Lunar or Julian) no matter how one would want to twist the history, that is just a number not a year.
Thats exactly what I thought. The knife is way newer then the date so could it be just a number that the maker added? or probably to give it more value.
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