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Collectors associations:
European Union to Search for, Collect and Preserve Primitive and Curios Money (EUCOPRIMO)
Maß und Gewicht, Verein für Metrologie e.V.
Publications:
Hartmut Mollat "A Model Chronology of the Animal Weights of Burma (Myanmar)" Anthropos 104 / 2009, 533-542, 2009 Free Download (pdf-file 6,5 MB)
Steven Martin "The Art of Opium Antiques" Silkworm Books, Chiang Mai, 2007
Donald and Joan Gear "An Ancient Bird-shaped Weight System from Lan Na and Burma" Silkworm Books, Chiang Mai, 2002
Donald and Joan Gear "EARTH TO HEAVEN, The Royal Animal-Shaped Weights of the Burmese Empires" Silkworm Books, Chiang Mai, 1992 / 2000
Donald and Joan Gear "Fragen zu birmanischen Tiergewichten" Zeitschrift für Metrologie, Heft Nr. 29 (3/1994)
Hartmut Mollat "Über Fälschungen asiatischer Tiergewichte" Zeitschrift für Metrologie, Heft Nr. 22 (6/1992 pp. 507-509) and Heft Nr. 24 (8/1992 p. 568)
Hartmut Mollat "Die Standardformen der Tiergewichte Birmas" Baessler-Archiv, Neue Folge, Band XXXII, 1984
Rolf und Ilse Braun "Opiumgewichte / Opium weights / Poids d'Asie" Pfälzische Verlagsanstalt, Landau, 1983
Sylvia Fraser-Lu " BURMESE 'OPIUM' WEIGHTS" Arts of Asia, Vol. 12, Issue 1, 1982 Buy this issue used.
Publishing houses:
Silkwormbooks, Chiang Mai, Thailand (www.silkwormbooks.info)
Art forums:
Asian Arts Forum (www.asianart.com)
Opium Weights Forum (forum.opiumgewichte.com)
Asian art magazines:
Orientation - The magazine for collectors and connoisseurs of Asian art (www.orientation.com.hk)
Museums / Asian Art Collections:
Durham University, Oriental Museum (http://www.dur.ac.uk/oriental.museum)
museum-directory (Germay/Austria)
OpiumMuseum (www.OpiumMuseum.com)
Art Galleries:
Galerie Michael Herrfurth Asiatische Kunst.
Browse sales catalogue:

Browse Christmas Special (catalogue no. 4):

Collectors websites:
Mark van Hierden Opium weights collection
Friendly recommended:
Dr. Owen Wrighley: "The Politics of Deafness"
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