Four sweet wrappers, made of greased paper, two of which depict Bactrian camels and sheep’s tarsal bones, and are coloured red, black, yellow and cream on white. The other two have a central band of gold foil and colourful patterns on each side in brown, yellow, pink and orange. All of the wrappers are inscribed in Mongolian in Cyrillic script.
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