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Free Shipping Location: Rockville, United States Actual Size: 1.11" tall.
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$49.95 Shipping Location: Uithoorn - Zijdelwaard, Netherlands The item(s) pictured is/are the item(s) you will receive.
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$49.95 Shipping Location: Uithoorn - Zijdelwaard, Netherlands (100 tical 1 Viss). The item(s) pictured is/are the item(s) you will receive.
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$49.00 Shipping Location: Denver, United States Late 19th C. However despite their color, the weights are still mainly about ninety-percent copper.
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$49.00 Shipping Location: Denver, United States 1360.5g. 19th C. However despite the color, the weight is still mainly about ninety-percent copper. Weight: 1360.5 grams.
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$6.95 Shipping Location: Mobile, United States 32 gram size with a height of 28 mm.
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$8.70 Shipping Location: Stuart, United States Burmese bronze opium weight or Hintha duck weight. Measures 1 1/2" by 1"
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ANTIQUE BRONZE BURMESE 'HINTHA' BIRD DUCK OPIUM WEIGHT, 314g. 19th C. Lot 38
BURMA. CAMBODIA. CHINA. INDIA. INDONESIA. JAPAN. KOREA. LANKA. LAO. THAILAND. TIBET. Antique Bronze Burmese'Hintha' Bird Duck Opium Weight. Pegu District, 19th Century. 314g. Overview: The Burmese mythical bird'Hintha' also known as Hamsa. Is an aquatic bird ofter considered to be a duck, goose, or sometimes a swan, which inhabited the Himalaya Forest of southern Burma, and was considered by Burmese to be a sacred animal symbolic of purity, divine knowledge and cosmic breath. XXX The mountain tribes of the Golden Triangle Region. Burma, Lao, and Thailand, originally intended the use of these miniature animal figures to weigh'opium' during the 18th-19th centuries, a time when the forbidden Opium trade was flourishing in such occupied territories which straddled the Thai-Burmese border. XXX The phrase'Opium Weight' ... moreused to describe the small. Curious-looking metal animal and bird figures is somewhat misleading- while the weights actually serve a much wider, more useful purpose; they were used to gauge the weight of daily items of commerce found in the Burmese market-place, such as food, raw materials, spices, musk, gemstone, metal, both ordinary and precious, and expensive medicine, all of which were sold in quanities determined by these weights. Items were measured by a beam hung with two baskets or trays, the correct weight was placed in one basket and the other basket filled with the desired material until the two baskets balanced. Description: The Hintha Bird Duck: Boldly modelled in the shape of a small groud pecking fowl. Seated on a round base, rising to a small plinth incised by parallel borders, traped with small squares, delicately detailed with closely fitted wings and tail plumage, bulging eyes, pointed beak, and crested headdress. Solid bronze cast with smooth naturally aged dark brown patina. DISPLAY PEDESTAL IS NOT INCLUDED IN THIS AUCTION. Data Observation: Please view detailed photos for overall quality and minor imperfections of the item. Estimate Value: We are offe
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Burma opium weight Hintha 4C Kissing Duck - 10 Tical - 161 grams
Burma opium weight Hintha 4C Kissing Duck- 10 Tical- 161 grams Search Welcome to our Gallery of Opium Weights! For sale are original Burmese Animal shaped weights known as opium weights. Animal Figure Type: Hintha 4C- Kissing Duck Weight mass: 10 Tical(161 g) Height: 52 mm/ 2 inches. Period: late 19th Century Stamp mark: worn out Remarkable: very nice patina. Slight wear, the typical nice decoration Base: hexagonal Please see the photo's. World wide registered air mail shipping $ 14.90. We will combine shipping. Smaller weights will be shipped in a padded envelope. Larger weights in a small packet by Thailand Post. Over the past three decades. Opium weights have become a very popular collector’s item all over the world. The booming years in Asia and the opening of Burma now attracts more and more Western travellers and collectors. With ... morea fascinating history and an aesthetically engaging form, collecting opium weights is a relic hunter’s dream. Once acquainted with their various forms and knowledge of the styles, it is really fun to build up your collection. Considering also the high age of these weights and the still moderate price in some shops it is not too late to start up your collection. All our weights are selected carefully from various places in Burma and Thailand to offer you a fine selection of original and decorative pieces for reasonable prices. Beside the rarity of a weight we consider its condition. Shape and patina as most important. Most of our weights are from the late 18th and 19th Century. We are offering only original Burmese weights that were really used as such over 100 years ago. The Burmese mass unit is called Kyat(speak: Chatt) and the Thai mass unit called Tical/ Baht. Today one Kyat is about 16,3 grams, increased since the 15th Century from 11,2 grams. The Thai Tical/ Baht is equivalent to 15,2 grams. Many Opium weights offered in sets of 9 pieces are reproductions. This new weights were never used as weights and are often fantasy products in shape(spiders. Frogs, peacock, rh
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Antique Bronze Burmese Hintha Duck 81 Gram Opium Weight 6 Ray Mark 3 Lines
1890-1910. Burma Bronze Hintha Duck Opium Weight 6 Ray Star Flower Mark/ 3 Lines This is an 85 gram(3 ounce) antique bronze opium weight It is in the style of a Hintha(mythical bird) Duck The base is hexagonal with three lines around the perimeter The lower front right holds a mark of 6 rays of a star flower The edges and lines and details have been worn from use- see photos Your antique opium weight will arrive at your door. Shipped fast and free, via USPS First Class Mail Measurements: 1 1/2" x 1 1/8" x 7/8" Shipping Weight: 6 oz. securely packaged and shipped via USPS First Class Mail Service For more great stuff click here! Add us to your favorite sellers list here! Thank you for choosing to look at our listing. Feel secure in shopping with us! We offer great. Friendly customer service with fast responses to your emails ... moreand inquiries. We offer lightening fast and free shipping on every item we sell; most of it is shipped Priority Mail with no premium to you! We ship our orders within 24 hours of your purchase(weekends and holidays excluded) Need to return it? No problem. Simply contact us for the return shipping address and details. Your item broken or damaged during shipment? We will take care of it! Count on it. We successfully operated a retail business in Sonoma County. Ca. for decades and we strive to deliver that same brick and mortar service to our eBay customers! Thank you again for choosing to look and we hope to be able to serve you soon. Sincerely, CS. Costa Owner. Wine Country Wonders Powered by The free listing tool. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items.
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STUNNING VINTAGE MANDALAY GOLD LEAF WOOD CARVED HINTHA FIGURE ON DUCK 1
HILL TRIBE ARTIFACTS HILL TRIBE ARTIFACTS I have compiled a wealth of unique treasures. Antiques and artworks from Asia with a fantastic and mysterious history from travels, China, Japan, Bali, Tibet, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Taiwan, Philippines, Laos and Vietnam. My fascination with Asia inspired me to move here from England and become an avid collector/buyer of Asian oriental antique statues. Carvings, puppets, bronzes and unique objects, other items have been from years of collecting and accumulating from estates, private collections and auctions. STUNNING VINTAGE MANDALAY GOLD LEAF WOOD CARVED HINTHA FIGURE ON DUCK 1. I have just returned from a very successful shopping trip on the borders of Mae Sot. Thailand and across the Burmese border into Myawaddy. I will be listing over 50 new items the next week or so including 3 various sized ... moreHinta duck figures. This piece is mid 20th century. The Burmese mythological bird duck Hintha also known as Hamsa originated from where the Bago river once flowed strongly into the Yangon River and from there out to sea. At one time a huge area was mostly under water with only the tip of a hill rising out of the fast flowing river. The myth describes how a couple of Hintha birds or waterfowl with golden neck feathers. Were seen resting on the tip of the hill by two Princes who later founded the kingdom. The dry space on top of the hill was so small that the female bird had to perch on the back of her gallant mate. This gave rise to the unfounded rumor that Bago ladies would get the upper hand in marriage; maybe it would be more correct to say that Bago men make good husbands. The beautiful bird duck Hintha remains a beloved symbol of the Mon people. The very spot is immortalized by a pagoda. The Hintha Gon Paya. One of the greatest kings to rule from Bago was Dhammazedi who reigned from 1471 to 1492. In the space of just twenty-one years, not only did he build many pagodas in Bago but he also re-gilded the Shwedagon Pagoda of Yangon(then known as Dagon) with four times his and
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19TH CENTURY BURMESE BRONZE OPIUM WEIGHT 20 TICAL HINTHA DUCK 345.9 GMS
Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge From a Tucson estate some years ago and collected during the 1950's or so is this compelling antique Burmese bronze 20 Tical so called opium weight. An I believe Mid 19th Century proposition in every sense. The figural weight is conceived as a Hintha duck and shows a frieze of notches at the top of the round base. This corresponds very well to type"H3B" on Hartmut Mollat's model chronology chart, so dating circa 1850 or so(prior to 1868) there is no verification mark evident, but in this case that is a good thing- Mollat says it is usually missing on this type. The offered necessity of trade and commerce fulfills all of Mollat's criterea for the H3B type. If you know the genre and understand ... morethe significance of such a genuine example, the offered beauty needs no further descriptors. Weight is correct for a 20 Tical weight at about 345.9 grams on my portable digital scale; this is just slightly to the heavy side of proper, but not overly so. Condition is quite fine with an aura of good age to the bronze surfaces, that come by honestly, the underside of the base exhibits the sort of charismatic evidence of genuine wear as proper and desired. There are no hidden restorations. There are otherwise just typical and expected signs of period purposeful use and then long display in that Tucson home, all speaking to the history and here simply more evidence of the real thing. Size is about 2 11/16 in. high. If you collect the material culture of old Burma and especially these icons of the opium trade, or simply wish this single improvement the ambiance of a room in your home, this will have great meaning for you. Payment Terms, PAYMENT WITHIN 10 DAYS OF AUCTION CLOSING. I ACCEPT PAYPAL AS PER EBAY RULES. Shipping Terms, THIS ITEM U.S. ONLY; INTERESTED INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS PLEASE EMAIL. BUYER PAYS FOR SHIPPING. GENERALLY WILL SHIP US PRIORITY MAIL OR USPS FIRST CLASS
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Hintha 4C - Kissing Duck bronze opium weight Burma
Original Burmese Animal shaped weight known as opium weight. Animal Figure Type: Hintha 4C- Kissing Duck Weight mass: 10 Tical(165 g) Height: about 2 inches. Period: seems to be 19th Century Very nice patina. Slight wear, the typical nice decoration Base: hexagonal Shipping worldwide for actual price. The price automaticaly gave by eBay may be wrong. Please ask.
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ANTIQUE OPIUM WEIGHT HINTHA(DUCK) BRONZE BURMA ASIAN 328 GRAMS 20 TICALS
96 800x600 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE ANTIQUE BURMA OPIUM WEIGHT HINTHA 20 TICAL FREE SHIPPING! The Burmese tical mass varied with time from 10.4grams(15thC) to 16.3 grams(1830) Weight mass: 20 tical(328 g) Height: 60 mm/ 2.36 in verificationmark: 9-rayed star Age: prior to 1776 Base: octagonal Remarkable: chest decoration single chain. Very good condition, only minor wear and tear, wonderful dark and green patinas* Some use to be Amulet! These interesting animal weights have long attracted the curiosity of travellers to Burma and are now very much coveted by collectors as they become harder to find. The term‘opium' weight is somewhat a misnomer. It arouses the romantic notion that these weights were used to weigh and measure out wads of acrid smelling opium that would then be smoked on platform beds in darkened dens. ... moreThe term"opium" weight was probably coined by a foreigner with a lively imagination and an allure for the mystical East. While it is true that some of the smaller weights were used for measuring the heady sap. opium" weights served a much wider, more useful and down to earth purpose. Originally they were used to weigh relatively high value products such as silver ingots which were used as currencies. Early European traders reported the use of these weights for measuring foreign gold and silver coins, pearls, rubies, coral, personal ornaments, spices, camphor, musk and costly medicines. More common products were weighed with dome shaped marble weights. Items were measured by a beam hung with two baskets or trays. The royal animal weights were made using the lost wax technique. Which could have reached Burma though Bengal or Yunnan. Great care was taken in weighing the amount of molten metal used in casting to ensure that the purported weight was accurate. The weights are made of a cupriferous alloy. The composition of which was variable, the main elements being copper, lead and tin. Minor constituents included zinc, iron, nickel and silver. The weights and measures
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Burma or China opium weight Hintha Duck - 83.8 grams antique
83.8 g antique
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Burma or China opium weight Hintha Duck - 164.3 grams antique
164.3 g antique
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Burma or China opium weight Hintha Duck - 156.9 grams antique
156.9 g antique ag6 2.RcmdId ViewItemDescV4,RlogId p4%60bo7%60jtb9%3Fuk.rp73%28c%3Eag6%3E2-1490ce3723c-0x106-
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Burma or China opium weight Hintha Duck - 162 grams antique
162 g antique
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ANTIQUE BRONZE BURMESE 'HINTHA' BIRD DUCK OPIUM WEIGHT, 1481 gm. 16th C
Large example of the ancient Burmese bronze Royal weights in Hintha bird shape. Green patina. Comma convex wings, with vertical lines on the wings. Handle with double loop to the back. 3 Head knobs overlapping. Rod shaped mouth appendage. Octagonal base. UV shaped tail. The royal animal‐shaped weights. Commonly called‘Opium Weights’ of the Burmese Empires are unique not only as a weight system, but also as one of the most important artifact series in a country with but few durable artifacts. Buddhist art in India gave rise to the Burmese choices of animal motifs to use on the weights. This is one of three dozen Burmese antique artifacts collected by the consigner in the late 1990’s in Yangon. Myanmar. Weight 1481 grams. Height 11cm. Gear reference notes the weight was produced during the Burmese Nyaungyan Dynasty. 1531-63 A.D. group 5. Reference: ... moreEarth To Heaven: The Royal Animal Shaped Weights of the Burmese Empires. Donald and Joan Gear, 1992, Silkworm Books, Chaing Mai, Thailand.
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Burma or China opium weight Hintha Duck - 7.7 grams antique
7.7 g antique
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Burma or China opium weight Hintha Duck - 17.5 grams antique
17.4 g antique
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Burma or China opium weight Hintha Duck - 64.7 grams antique
64.7 g antique
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