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Message:: [QUOTE="Paul W, post: 9464305, member: 77343"]@ komokwa The "opium weights" shown in that thread (more accurately called Burmese animal weights, because they were used for much more than weighing opium), are recent reproductions. The "opium pillow" there is genuine and old. But that style of pillow, like the weights, was used more generally, not only when smoking opium. In my collection photo you can see two opium pillows that were sold to and used exclusively in Chinese and SE Asian dens for smoking opium. They are the ones with the slanting top surface (not the blue & white ones). All of those with the slanted top surface were made by the Shi Wan kilns in southern China (1880-1920). Here's a photo of author Steve Martin putting one to proper use: [ATTACH=full]441027[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]