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Catalogue No. 30-I: Christmas Special 2022, Part I  |
Catalogue No. 30-II: Christmas Special 2022, Part II  |
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Catalogue No. 29: 111 Shan Beauties - Summer 2022  |
Catalogue No. 28: The Christmas Special 2021  |
Catalogue No. 27: The Christmas Special 2020  |
Catalogue No. 26: Late Summer Sale 2020  |
Catalogue No. 25: The Christmas Special 2019  |
Catalogue No. 24: The Kids VI  |
Catalogue No. 23: The Christmas Special 2018  |
Catalogue No. 22: The Christmas Special 2017  |
Catalogue No. 21: The Kids V - August 2017  |
Catalogue No. 20: SOLITAIRE 2017  |
Catalogue No. 19: The Christmas Special 2016  |
Catalogue No. 18: Summer Sale 2016  |
Catalogue No. 17: The Kids IV - Spring 2016  |
Catalogue No. 16: The Christmas Special 2015  |
Catalogue No. 15: The Weights of the last Kings  |
Catalogue No. 14: Christmas Special 2014  |
Catalogue No. 13: The Kids III  |
Catalogue No. 12: THE COLLECTION  |
Catalogue No. 11: Christmas Special 2013  |
Catalogue No. 10: The Kids II  |
Catalogue No. 9: TWENTY TICAL  |
Catalogue No. 8: Christmas Treasures 2012  |
Catalogue No. 7: The Bird Cage  |
Catalogue No. 6: The Lions of Burma  |
Catalogue No. 5: The Kids  |
Catalogue No. 4: Christmas Special 2011  |
Catalogue No. 3: Bird Weights  |
Museums / Asian Art Collections / Universities:
Museo Della Bilancia, Via Garibaldi 34/a, 41011 Campogalliano (Modena) - Italy (www.museodellabilancia.it)
Durham University, Oriental Museum (https://www.dur.ac.uk/oriental.museum)
Northern Illinois University, Collection of the Center for Burma Studies
Collectors associations:
European Union to Search for, Collect and Preserve Primitive and Curios Money (EUCOPRIMO)
Maß und Gewicht, Verein für Metrologie e.V.
Gewichten en Maten Verzamelaars Vereniging
Publications, sources and further readings:
Arts of Asia with the publication on the bird-shaped weights of the Shan Principalities of Burma:
Michael Herrfurth and Hartmut Mollat
"SHAN BEAUTIES
BIRD-SHAPED WEIGHTS OF SHAN PRINCIPALITIES OF BURMA"
Arts of Asia - Summer Issue 2021
Arts of Asia with the publication on the animal-shaped weights of Burma, the "Opium Weights":
Michael Herrfurth and Hartmut Mollat
"BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
ANIMAL-SHAPED WEIGHTS OF BURMA"
Arts of Asia - Special Burma Issue, May - June 2013 Edition
Leif Bering Mikkelsen: Opium Weights
This book not only deals narrowly with old weights from Southeast Asia. It also describes how trading,
valuation and means of payment in the area have developed and how concepts such as quantity,
weight, currency, value, coins and money were and to some extent still are close interwoven in the
Southeast Asian countries. The book also describes the symbolic radiance of the “Opium weights” as
the weights are called today, and tries to put them into a historical perspective. By setting the weights
into a context, it has also to some extent been possible to date them and to show that the use of these
weights was an integral part of that culture which in former days existed along “the Southwest Silk Road”.
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)
Joachim Gabel "LAO WEIGHTS AND THE LUANG SYMBOL"
source: Journal of the Siam Society, Vol. 97, 2009
Download this publication here (623 KB).
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
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.
John F. Dean "Conservation and Stabilization of Palm Leaf and Parabaik Manuscripts"
source: Cornell University Library, Ithaca NY 14853 | 607-255-4144
Download this publication here.
Publishing houses:
River Books, Bangkok / London (www.riverbooksbk.com)
Silkwormbooks, Chiang Mai, Thailand (www.silkwormbooks.com)
Art forums:
Asian Arts Forum (www.asianart.com)
Opium Weights Forum (https://www.opiumweights.de)
Asian art magazines:
Arts of Asia - The Asian Arts and Antiques Magazin (www.artsofasianet.com)
Orientation - The magazine for collectors and connoisseurs of Asian art (www.orientation.com.hk)
Friendly recommended:
Dr. Owen Wrighley: "The Politics of Deafness"
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