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Sunn Hemp Manuscript Papers
$4.40 ($4.00) / sheet

These are loose leaf ledger pages from Rajasthan, North West India. The paper is hand burnished sunn hemp and the pages contain accounts records dating back to the 19th century. Pages are long and narrow and have three holes at one end from the original string binding. The ledger sheets are mostly filled with writing (in ink), sometimes with a stamp on the top of the sheet.

The sheets are smooth surface, 90gsm and roughly 16cm x 42cm. Examples below.

 

 

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