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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 1212509, member: 2844&quot;]The plot thickens. Maybe it was used in several Austro-Hungarian lands. Slovakia is just one country away from Austria.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just a general observation:</p><p>Many posters think or ask if an item could be Tibetan. The items they ask about rarely are. Most items that look &#039;sort of&#039; Tibetan are from Nepal. Items that don&#039;t look Tibetan, are unlikely to be Tibetan.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tibet is a magical name, but in reality it is a country with a relatively small population.</p><p>When it comes to the main Himalayan countries the traditional saying is: Tibetans are priests, Nepalese are artists, Bhutanese are farmers.</p><p>Of course things are never as strict as that, but it gives an idea as to why Himalayan objects are more often Nepalese than Tibetan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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