I think its Bronze...Arts and Craft..Tribal art ??

6 inches across..heavy..with marked on back with dots 7<9.1

??????? Any help much appreciated

Indian or Islamic/Moroccan.

Yep, I think it has an Islamic feel.

Egyptian - i would suspect. Lots of army servicemen brought them back after operations in the Middle East in WW2. My partner's grandfather brought several pieces like this back with him - plates, boxes, vases. All very well made by Egyptian craftsmen.

£10 too much ??

i personally would pay up to around £30-40 for something like this. But i guess it's all personal taste. The workmanship in many of these pieces if amazing.

here's a box we inherited from my partner's granddad.  He apparently watched the craftsman making it in Cairo in the 1940s.

brin mcardle wrote:£10 too much ??

You'd probably get your money back. They're not rare, and it's traditional metalwork; they've been doing it a long time and passing the knowledge down father to son (apprenticed at a very young age), so you'd expect it to be good.

Thank you