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

katana · 8th September 2007, 12:46 PM

Hi Puff
I see what you mean ...the Muay Thai figures, mass produced and much smaller than the figures I posted are readily available.

http://www.theartofthailand.com/muay...419f5c13d7ca5e

However, in the West. pre WW2 there was little interest in Eastern Martial Arts and therefore no commercial value in trying to sell these figures to tourists. Because these are pre 1930's it strongly suggests that these were not manufactured as tourist 'trinkets'. I appreciate that they are basically a 'lump of metal', but , others that have no interest in edged weapons probably think it strange that we have appreciation of 'sharp lumps of metal'

I cannot find any examples on the web or eBay, which remotely look like my figures

8th September 2007, 12:46 PM	#13
katana Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Kent Posts: 2,658	Hi Puff I see what you mean ...the Muay Thai figures, mass produced and much smaller than the figures I posted are readily available. http://www.theartofthailand.com/muay...419f5c13d7ca5e However, in the West. pre WW2 there was little interest in Eastern Martial Arts and therefore no commercial value in trying to sell these figures to tourists. Because these are pre 1930's it strongly suggests that these were not manufactured as tourist 'trinkets'. I appreciate that they are basically a 'lump of metal', but , others that have no interest in edged weapons probably think it strange that we have appreciation of 'sharp lumps of metal' I cannot find any examples on the web or eBay, which remotely look like my figures