Further telescopes were made for use as diplomatic and royal gifts.
They were intensely personal, whether love tokens, mourning pictures or diplomatic gifts.
The mission returned without an agreement, but diplomatic gifts were exchanged, including the rhinoceros.
That there horse and saddle was supposed to be a diplomatic gift from the outfit for you.
In Europe, she continued, "a snuffbox was a common diplomatic gift."
Such visits had overall resulted in 13 diplomatic gifts between 752 and 798.
And the government soon began to use them as prestigious diplomatic gifts.
Fine ceramics made in Mālaqa were frequently given as diplomatic gifts.
They could also be given as diplomatic gifts between rulers.
It seems to me that this is not merely a diplomatic gift.