PLACE REPRESENTED: Kazakhstan

ITEM: Wall Ornament

NOTES: Okay so the image may have specific significance but I’m not sure what it is. It does seem to be a Eagle Hunter (associated with Kazakhstan) standing on a flying leopard (probably a snow leopard, the national symbol of Kazakhstan … though they don’t fly).

A former Soviet territory (liberated from the Soviets in 1991) Kazakhstan is the world’s ninth-largest country by land area and the largest landlocked country. Kazakh is widely spoken as is Russian. The population are ethnically Kazakh and are a Turkic ethnic group native to Central Asia and Eastern Europe. The population is mainly Muslim. Who says you can’t learn anything on the internet?

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s

MADE FROM: bakelite

MADE IN: unknown

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 12cm diameter