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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;smallaxe, post: 2305108, member: 13430&quot;]<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/13/emery-walker-islamic-collection-london-objects-jewellery-art" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/13/emery-walker-islamic-collection-london-objects-jewellery-art" rel="nofollow">Here is another very similar item</a>, 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&#039;s item. It&#039;s hard to tell though, since the outside isn&#039;t shown.</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>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.</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Although this says they were mass produced, a search of <i>David Bryce miniature quran</i> shows that they are not terribly common, and seem to have collector interest.</p><p><img src="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/58d50218484e82da26b8279a4bf6be1516968f81/0_248_2717_1631/master/2717.jpg?width=620&amp;quality=45&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=d6849f445c6ca7b5371f9e4b1e7cd9f9" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>The <a href="https://www.nls.uk/exhibitions/treasures/miniature-books/quran" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.nls.uk/exhibitions/treasures/miniature-books/quran" rel="nofollow">National Library of Scotland</a> has one of these too, and it looks very much like yours.</p><p><img src="https://www.nls.uk/media/1092109/miniature-quran-500.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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