Goudgewicht - Seven Birds in a Tree - Proverb - Abrammuo - Mrammuo - Akan

AKAN, ASHANTI, ASANTE, ANCIENT GOLD WEIGHT. SEVEN BIRDS IN A TREE. Gold weight. Figurative. Ghana, Gold Coast, Ivory Coast, West Africa. Unique and rare weight. Used as a weight in trade; and for weighing gold dust and gold grains. A particularly African bronze miniature object, good antique quality, with unique details, with wear from tribal use. See also Brigitte Menzel, Gold weights from Ghana, fig. 757 - 758. WITH PROVERB: The ensee birds like a tree to die (so that they can make holes in it). OR: One man’s death is another man’s bread. OR: When the tree falls, everyone makes firewood of it. OR: Profit from someone’s downfall, misfortune or death. Characteristic and traditional bronze object of the AKAN, ASHANTI, Ghana, West Africa. African bronze, lost-wax casting method, lost wax, cire perdue. Most likely 18th/19th century. Beautiful tribal patina. Weighs 10.4 grams, dimensions 5.1 x 1.4 x 1.0 cm. Base small pyramid 1.1 x 1.0 cm. For size, compare with coins. From an old and unique private collection. See photos, which are part of the description. Carefully packaged; and insured shipping with track and trace via PostNL. Can also be picked up in Leiden, Netherlands.

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