Any information about these weights?
Standard, age, verification mark...


1 - weight with "snake"-mark, 37 g


2 - weight with "snake"-mark, 37 g


1 - "bowl", 62 g


3 - "bowl", 62 g

Reference: Rolf und Ilse Braun "Opiumgewichte....", page 238, plate 626 (60,5 g)

Bought in Burma.

Your comments are welcome.
Thanks in advance!
Michael

Some more of these interesting weights:


Set of 3 weights: 12 g, 37 g, 61 g


Set of 3 weights: 12 g, 37 g, 61 g


Bowl with nice patina: 62 g


Bowl with nice patina: 62 g


Bowl with nice patina: 62 g


Small "Bowls": 12 g each


Another one: 61 g

All the bigger weights with same weight mass (about 61 g) even different shape. Small weights with 12 g.

A special one (a beautiful gift from friends: Thanks again):


Double "snake": 60 g


Double "snake": 60 g

Hallo White Elephant

The octagonal weights seem to come from Thailand. Since the „snake mark“ appears on weights of different mass it must indicate just „weight“. This mark appeared already on „Pyu“-weights several centuries back. The image shows a hand made „snake“ which resembles to the gha gyi letter of Burma/Myanmar. The masses of ca. 15–37–62- 124 g speak for a sequence of 1–2 ½ – 4 -8.

The bowls in general don't seem to be weights. They are better interpreted as lucky charms referring to the bowls the monks used to collect foodstuff. According to the studies of G.M.M.Houben they have no proper weight system. However, some of them could be used as weights when the mass corresponded to a weight class. Since they were produced by the same craftsmen who made the weights the „classes“ of the bowls may be nothing but different price levels.

Dear Hartmut,
thanks a lot for this interesting information about the "snake" mark already on Pyu weights.
Here Gears "Earth to Heaven", plate 25, page 77:


Pyu weight with "snake"-mark