Sharada birchbark mss : anyone offered any?

[Allen W Thrasher]

If anyone has been offered for sale or valuation, or seen in a bookseller's catalog, any modern or medieval birchbark manuscripts from Kashmir, could they please contact me off the list?
 
I should state in advance I am not asking because of any suspicion of theft or national patrimony and export issues, but in helping someone get a basis for appraisal.   I am also not referring to ancient Gandhari birchbark mss or similar items, but solely to much more recent Kashmir mss.
 
Thanks,
 
Allen
 
Allen W. Thrasher, Ph.D., Senior Reference Librarian
South Asia Team, Asian Division
Library of Congress, Jefferson Building 150
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