ATH#220658

Antique Burmese Opium Weight

5" Tall overall

4” Bronze Chinthe on

1” Solid Copper Base

(2 ¼” Wide x 2 ½” Long)

3 lb 6 oz

Probably not actually used to weigh opium,  but a common weight used in homes and merchants in the golden triangle area

The Chinthe lions were always in a pair – I’m sorry that the other one was not around when I acquired this.

Older than 1800 weights were almost always one-piece.

this is a two-piece item – but still very old – the use of solid copper under the bronze lion is unusual.

The raw copper was more plentiful that the bronze (which is a copper + tin alloy, often with other metals included to achieve various ends), so in a way it makes sense to me, yet with my large collection of opium weights all but a very few are one-piece.

PLEASE DO NOT COMPARE THIS WEIGHT TO MODERN REPRODUCTIONS

some of the modern weights are pretty neat, but many are “stressed” so the merchant can pawn them off as antique . . . 😊

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