Khanjar from Afghanistan

Oriental-Arms · 30th June 2011, 01:16 PM

Well, we are getting closer to Afghanistan. I was just about to bring tons of arguments why this is not an Arab dagger but Kurt and Tatyana saved me the work - Thanks. I wish to bring up only one point: We have seen here five exemplars, all of the same shape, size, blade quality, materials and decoration, whereas Arab Khanjars are characterized in a big variety of all above. This, IMHO, indicate that these daggers are coming from a very specific area or group of people. To strengthen this argument we should also mention that from the huge variety of Arab Khanjars, rarely we see blades of watered steel, whereas here all are with good wootz blades.

30th June 2011, 01:16 PM	#17
Oriental-Arms Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Haifa, Israel Posts: 183	Well, we are getting closer to Afghanistan. I was just about to bring tons of arguments why this is not an Arab dagger but Kurt and Tatyana saved me the work - Thanks. I wish to bring up only one point: We have seen here five exemplars, all of the same shape, size, blade quality, materials and decoration, whereas Arab Khanjars are characterized in a big variety of all above. This, IMHO, indicate that these daggers are coming from a very specific area or group of people. To strengthen this argument we should also mention that from the huge variety of Arab Khanjars, rarely we see blades of watered steel, whereas here all are with good wootz blades.