Is this bronze ? And what is it ?

Hello I also found this in my mother’s attic and have no idea . I would like to have it cleaned maybe it has some marks. Does anyone know or has seen something like this before?
could it be bronze?

 

It has glass to protect the small book inside.
And it’s 2cm x 3 cm

 

And I see there is something different in the first page

 

looks like a mini Quran ..... but yer pics are too small for me...to get a good look

 

It looks like it's the same material as what we call tins to me and the text is too small to see what language you have there ..

 

Hopefully this hasn’t lost too much focus

 

What do you recommend I clean it with

 

Yes, don’t clean it, some call it gold water as here. I don’t know if it is a Quran though.
http://www.antiques.com/classified/...-Holy-Quran-The-entire-holy-Quran-micro-sized

 

Niktse, could you show us a good photo of what looks like the last page to you?

 

Is that glass in the case a magnifying glass?

 

Looking at the price on that...YIKES! Was that a US$ price?
I agree with others about not cleaning or messing with it.

 

so far i see no reason why this , is not that !

 

Here is another very similar item, with a completely different story than for the one in the earlier link. The book looks identical, but the case looks a bit different...less substantially made that the poster's item. It's hard to tell though, since the outside isn't shown.

Once Choudhery started looking she found Islamic pieces in every room, including a very tatty camel saddle, and a copy of the Qur’an the size of a postage stamp sent by Walker to his daughter who wanted to learn Arabic. The Qur’ans were actually printed by a Scottish man, David Bryce, who specialised in miniature books. They were mass-produced for Muslim soldiers during the first world war, supplied in metal cases with a ring so they could be hung on a chain.​

Although this says they were mass produced, a search of David Bryce miniature quran shows that they are not terribly common, and seem to have collector interest.

The National Library of Scotland has one of these too, and it looks very much like yours.

 

It is in Arabic, if there was doubt on that score.

 

Sure I’ll do that now

 

Thank you yes they do look similar

 

Yes it is indeed