Tuesday, October 21, 2008

500-year old Quran on display

The oldest handwritten and decorated holy book in southeast asia will be displayed for the first time at the sultan alam shah museum in shah alam. A 1000-year old keris from central java called ‘keris utama prabu demak’ and a Thomas Edison polyphone radio, said to be 119-years old will also be on display. Not only that, the oldest floral silk fabric called ‘cindai’ and a 129-year old sewing machine will also be auctioned. There is about 400 items to be auctioned, from the total of 500 items being displayed.

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