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An open ledger with hand-ruled columns of Urdu entries and figures.

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A shop ledger, open

Ruled columns, a running total and a hand that does not hesitate.

A printed and hand-filled job slip listing paper sizes, quantities and rates in Urdu.

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A printer's parchi

A job slip with rates, quantities and a signature at the foot.

A printed receipt from a livestock market, filled in by hand with weights and rates in Urdu.

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A mandi receipt

Weights, rates and a running column, written out by hand at the point of sale.

A metal stencil plate cut with the word MULTAN, resting on a timber board and inked red.

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A stencil plate

The plate that puts a place name on every crate that leaves the yard.

A curved grafting knife with a worn wooden handle resting on a stone surface with two dry leaves.

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A grafting knife

A curved blade worn thin on one side by repeated sharpening.

Brass balance scales beside a stack of iron weights on a market table, with fruit crates behind.

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Balance scales

Two brass pans, a stack of iron weights and a decision made in public.

A carved and pierced timber balcony rail with a turned baluster, weathered pale by sun.

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A balcony rail

Pierced timber and a turned baluster, weathered on the street side.

A weathered enamel signboard hand-lettered in Urdu for a paint and hardware shop.

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A paint shop sign

Hand-lettered Urdu on enamel, with the English trade name underneath.

A pair of large brass-handled tailor's shears lying open on a pale surface.

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Tailor's shears

Brass-handled, heavy, and set down mid-job.

A single yellow mango resting on the crumpled newsprint it was wrapped in.

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A mango, wrapped

The newsprint is the packaging, and the packaging is dated.

A narrow lane crowded with pedestrians and motorcycles, hung with layered bookshop signboards.

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A bookshop lane

Signboards stacked three deep over a lane too narrow for two cars.

An open account book with hand-drawn column rules and rows of Urdu entries.

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A ruled account book

Columns drawn with a straight edge before a single entry was made.