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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 249439, member: 2844"]Hello Matthew, welcome.</p><p>That's a very nice set of boxes. They are Burmese (Myanmar) lacquer betel leaf boxes. Betel leaf has a peppery taste and it is chewed in parts of Asia, often with tobacco or areca nut. Visitors are offered betel from these boxes as a sign of hospitality.</p><p>The writing is Burmese script, which is more upright and rounded in shape than Arabic.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 249439, member: 2844"]Hello Matthew, welcome. That's a very nice set of boxes. They are Burmese (Myanmar) lacquer betel leaf boxes. Betel leaf has a peppery taste and it is chewed in parts of Asia, often with tobacco or areca nut. Visitors are offered betel from these boxes as a sign of hospitality. The writing is Burmese script, which is more upright and rounded in shape than Arabic.[/QUOTE]
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