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FROM AFGHANISTAN, a rare an unusual antique personal artifact, this snuff box or snuff bottle fashioned from a moulded gourd with silver appointments. The decorated gourd has not been carved. Instead, a growing gourd is encased in a two-part wooden mold inside of which is carved and incised decoration. The gourd is removed at maturity, its having grown into the molded negative spaces, the gourd surface now in wonderful relief...