Is this an opium cutter ?
 

The seller in the street market assures me this is an opium cutter. I suggested it is a bettel cutter and he says it is not the same thing; that he saw it in the internet as being a tool for cutting opium ... which i doubt.
Anyone here to tell me the seller is right ... or wrong ? In fact and based on his 'certainty' he is asking a lot of money for this antique.
Its real size is circa 1/3 of this enlarged picture


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Seems to be just an ordinary betel cutter...

Thank you Colin; that's what i though. I have just read that they call this version guillotine type.

Yes, an Indian betel cutter.
Attached two similar examples from my collection.

Very nice examples you show there, Detelef.
First one below an example with silver inlay that i had and let go.
The second, one that i have and would love to know what those engraved letters would mean.

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Thank you Fernando,

the both you have shown in up are much nicer! Both are from India I think.

Regards,
Detlef

Thank you Detlef. Yes, i think so.