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Waistcoat, China, 19th Century, silk, embroidery threads, braid
Child's waistcoat of red tan silk jacquard, embroidered with a flower pattern, patterned braid and a black border. Lined with blue silk jacquard. Front section is breast and armholes with a longer back section.
Pipe, China, metal (brass), wire
A tall, stemmed smoker's utensil for smoking cigarettes. Supported on a cone shaped base. Handwritten in pencil on base "[illegible] / Pipe / China"
Belt buckle, Japan, metal (silver plated nickle-aluminium alloy)
Imperial Japanese Navy WWII belt buckle for cloth belt used by both officers and enlisted men. Rectangular shape with diagonal corners. embossed fouled anchor in vertical position within a frame. Verso has a hollow back with levered rectangular loop.
Vase, Japan, Glazed ceramic
Japanese vase, bulbous base with thin neck - figure with landscape decoration.
Tamil script, ink on pandanus leaf
Three pandanus leaf pages from a book written in Tamil script in black ink. Pages are folded and have circular hole through each folded page. Tamil script is an abugida script that is used by Tamils and Tamil speakers in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia.
