Turkish primitive hand carved one-piece wooden opium harvest tool with blade to harvest resin of opium in.

Until 1970's illegal opium production was a mainstay in Anatolia, Turkey.
This tool with a short blade aside (best seen in #3) was used to cut / scratch one side of opium and lay in / collect spilling resin.
In 1970's such tools were seized and destructed by local authorities to prevent any opium harvest.

* 23cm by 6cm by h: 2.6cm (9" by 2.3/8" by h: 1")

It is solid and in good condition for age with some normal wear of use (see all picts).

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