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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 390294, member: 2844&quot;]AuDragon said: <a href="https://www.antiquers.com/goto/post?id=390272#post-390272" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/goto/post?id=390272#post-390272">↑</a></p><p>Your rubbing actually comes from Wat Pho in Bangkok. (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Pho" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Pho" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Pho</a>)</p><p>Very useful info, AuDragon, thank you.</p><p>When my parents bought ours in 1970 we were told it was from the Ramayana, which seems to be called Ramakien in Thai. The original Hindu Sita is called Benyagai in Thai.</p><p>We were also told that the rubbings were made from replicas of the original carvings to prevent wear. That is also mentioned on the site you included.</p><p>We may have seen them being made, but I don&#039;t remember.</p><p>Below is ours, silver and gold paint on red cotton. We also have king Rama (Phra Ram) in his chariot. Both were bought by my parents when we were in Bangkok in 1970. A time when the city was filled with American GIs and other tourists. Bangkok was already the tourist hotspot of Asia, but that may have died down a bit after the Vietnam war ended.</p><p>There was literally a pile of these to chose from, which I would call mass production. They were an easy souvenir, because they were just cloth, which fits in a suitcase.</p><p>My parents had it framed in Australia, I think.</p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/upload_2018-8-10_13-15-19-jpeg.135366/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I saw a lot of the black and white paper ones in shops here in the Netherlands in the 1980s and 90s. I still see them regularly on second hand sites here. Mass production doesn&#039;t mean they are not nice, they are.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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