Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - SEA brass warriors, circa 1930...help ID? comments?

~Alaung_Hpaya~ · 7th September 2007, 02:15 PM

I would agree with Puff in that there seems to be little market for most brass things in Burma so I would assume Thailand would be similar . I've seen a few Burmese brasses for sale in the UK but they seem to be few and far between ( i think eBay's recently had a Burmese general on a horse carrying a dha and a villager from either the 1800s or early 1900s )

In Burma at least ( and elsewhere ) the real collectible brass items are the "opium weights" and the occasional figures of musicians from the Bagan era . Most of these are already in private collections and so what you will find floating around are recent reproductions .

7th September 2007, 02:15 PM	#9
~Alaung_Hpaya~ Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 65	I would agree with Puff in that there seems to be little market for most brass things in Burma so I would assume Thailand would be similar . I've seen a few Burmese brasses for sale in the UK but they seem to be few and far between ( i think eBay's recently had a Burmese general on a horse carrying a dha and a villager from either the 1800s or early 1900s ) In Burma at least ( and elsewhere ) the real collectible brass items are the "opium weights" and the occasional figures of musicians from the Bagan era . Most of these are already in private collections and so what you will find floating around are recent reproductions .