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LOT 36:
A THAI TALISMANIC YANTRA SHIRT
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Sold for: $150
Price including buyer’s premium:
$
187.35
Start price:
$
50
Estimate :
$100 - $200
Buyer's Premium: 24.9%
sales tax: 6%
On the lot's price and buyer's premium
Users from foreign countries may be exempted from tax payments, according to the relevant tax regulations
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A THAI TALISMANIC YANTRA SHIRT
Woven of cotton and stamped overall with inscriptions, prayers and holy representations for spiritual protection in battle. Such shirts required extensive prayer by Theravada monks who were considered to have profound spiritual strength; this example was made at the temple of Wat Bangkrabao. Shirts of this type were last used during the Free Thai guerilla movement against the Japanese in the early 1940s. First half of the 20th century. Overall length 57cm./ 22 ? inches. Condition I
