SEA brass warriors, circa 1930...help ID? comments?

PUFF · 7th September 2007, 03:15 PM

The most common brass objects are lord Buddha and related stuff. And then household objects. Figgure like this 's quite uncommon to me. It could be souvenier or such

This is an example of tourist objects. Mostly, they are made in modern styles. This 's one of exceptional not-so-modern style.

Brass object with some age rarely appear on the market because they could hardly make a good (antique) price.

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

7th September 2007, 03:15 PM	#1
PUFF Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 30 miles north of Bangkok, 20 miles south of Ayuthaya, Thailand Posts: 224	The most common brass objects are lord Buddha and related stuff. And then household objects. Figgure like this 's quite uncommon to me. It could be souvenier or such This is an example of tourist objects. Mostly, they are made in modern styles. This 's one of exceptional not-so-modern style. Brass object with some age rarely appear on the market because they could hardly make a good (antique) price.

8th September 2007, 12:46 PM	#2
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