Les Antiques de Nepal
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have been plenty of people from all over Nepal who have been selling ancient heirlooms. Obviously must be because of poor economic conditions. But business is so bad now that some days it is an achievement just to make one sale.’
Another old timer, Om Narayan Shrestha of ‘New Curio Shop’ in Thamel says he has seen much better days and today his business is a dead loss. He has been in the business for almost three decades and also had his shop in Basantpur in the beginning.
Most shops have curios in wood, metal and fabric. Curios, whether antique or not, encompass a wide variety of objects ranging from musical instruments, masks and boxes to vessels, primitive figures, bells, manuscripts and clothes. Antique locks (‘bhote talchas’), ‘Mana Pathis’ (set of 8 measuring vessels of Lichavi period), ‘Dhungro’ (milking pails), ‘Shaman sets’ (belt with lots of
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