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Sharing an inscribed serpentine snuff bottle

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« on: April 10, 2016, 12:05:45 am »

Hi Marcos,

I suspect the bottle itself has some age, and that the inscription, as well as the leiwen border motif were possibly both added later.
Your comment about the use of simplified characters seems to reinforce this thought.

Tom
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