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@Anonymoose9 where did you see it?   

The text at bottom right is Vietnamese but the rest is anyone's guess. Maybe stylised calligraphy in Tibetan, Balinese or some other SE Asian script?

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We were in a junk shop in Vietnam and my 5 year old son liked the writing so I bought it for a few dollars. I thought the red stamps looked like Chinese like characters. The other script I cant figure out. 

 

Some of the characters or letters do indeed seem to match up with Tibetan. 

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I wonder if it's some sort of Daoist talisman? The yellow paper and the seals sort of give it the look. Definitely is a Tibetan look to a couple of the letters but overall I'd say it isn't, maybe some Devanagari-based script though?

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It's not Devanagari, I'm 99% sure that I would recognise. 

 

The thing at top-right looks like some kind of Buddhist yantra, like you might see in a Thai sacred tattoo, but there seem to be several different writing systems here.  Some of it looks a bit like Khmer.


The script in the heavy red box at the top could be Chinese seal script, but I doubt the rest is Chinese. 

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