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Originally Posted by cyten
I just came into possession of three of these types of measures and thought I'd add my 2 cents. I believe these types are Ottoman. I purchased mine in Turkey in a small village on the Black Sea, I have found many more examples in Bulgaria as well. No doubt the design or examples have made their way throughout the empire and into Persia as well as Afghanistan, but I believe their origin is Ottoman.
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Persia and Turkey and Persia and Afghanistan are so closely connected with each other that it is very difficult to say who borrowed powder measures from whom ...