Arabic or Indian translation. Bronze/Brass tray.

I hope it doesn't read "Made in India.
I posted this on the metal board but thought i would post here and ask about the stamp on the back.
this tray or plate is 8". With the worn design on the edge and symbol with more script in the center.
Maybe it is antique or just left in the weather a few years.
I have no Idea what language that could be but I know we have a lot of translators here these days.
Mikey

 

Writing looks Arabic.

 

Thank you pat. That's my first impression.

 

Arabic, so that or Farsi. Not Indian.

 

Or Urdu, which I think most likely, given the style. Upside down I think.
It is probably a name, either of the maker or of the owner. It is very worn though, I am not sure any Urdu, Farsi or Arabic speaker will be able to make sense of it.
I don't think it adds anything to the value.

 

That's a point, I'd forgotten Urdu.

 

Yes it is pretty worn. Do you think it has some age or made to look old?

 

Genuine age.

 

Cool

 

Very nice tray and it sparked a good memory !

I had a neighbor , Mrs. Smythe, who was in China in the 1920's , had a friend , GR Davis , a Methodist Missionary who had been in the Siege at the legation compound during the Boxer Rebellion : anyway , she had some of his things, one was a tray like this and a Russian Samovar and she would make us kids tea on a rainy day and we would look at her collection of Indian Baskets ( her father was a geologist in Arizona /New Mexico in the 1880's) and read her National Geographic collection , 1899 and up ! Wonderful woman , great stories , alzheimer's got her and at 86 she passed away , when I was 16. She gave me GR Davis's Table medal given to him by the British Government....it always made me feel very special she thought that highly of me to give it to me and I am it's caretaker still... Makes "55 days at Peking" all the more entertaining knowing I have a real piece of the History of China and the Boxer rebellion.

I don't know if any of you saw the article about the Chinese Government in the last year destroying the ethnic Muslim cemeteries , but GR Davis died in 1926 and in the 1960's the English Cemetery where he was buried in China was destroyed by the Red Guard .... History repeating itself again ....

 

Great story. She sounds like a wonderful woman.
Mikey