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Brass grooming kit consisting of a chain decorated with a twisted wire floral motif from which hangs a coin and from this five grooming tools: two earpicks, one nailpick and two miniature spears used as toothpicks. The coin has Chinese inscriptions 'Shunzhi tongbao' on obverse and 'xuan' on the reverse which indicate that the coin was made in the reign of the Chinese emperor Shunzhi who ruled 1644-1661.
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