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Ethnic jerwerly from aorund the world

Opium box, suppose the be a wedding present for a man Bought in Afganistan!1It has 4 different compartments
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  • it looks very nice, but I have no knowledge about this item.. (don't know what they use it for).

  • They keep opium in it!!

  • A similar concept to a Japanese Inro?

  • Sarah mentions it already it looks like an inro but you also find boxes like that with the Miao in China.

    harald

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