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I've previously posted and many of you have looked but nobody has been able to help. Now I have a picture of all 9 spoons. Maybe someone can recognize the style and tell me where they came from. Thank you.

Kent:
If you haven't found out yet who really knows their origin, suggest checking on wood carving from Java & Bali since one of spoon handles has Arabic (Islamic) words. Indonesia is mostly Moslem and both islands have a rich wood carving tradition. Malaysia too.
The style reminded me too of Thailand but they don't have Islamic culture there to my knowledge. Otherwise, northwest India
(near Kashmir) and Pakistan would be a distant 2nd guess.

I posted the spoons. A very thorough fellow in Germany has found that they are Persian Tea Sipping Spoons and has sent me a German research paper proving it. The pictures show spoons almost identical to the ones I pictured. Thank you all for viewing my post. Kent Lowney

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