We spent a few hours today wandering along "Antique" Street. Shop after shop filled to the brim with stuff ranging in age from 5 to 500 years old. Porcelin, pots, and plates; coins, candelabras and cans; bells, bowls, buffalo horns, baskets and brass Buddhas.
Hilly has been keen to buy bells since the first few days here. And today we found lots of examples of brass and silver bells that would have been draped around the necks of buffalo or goats or whatever. Now, if what we have been told is true, we have bought a brass bowl, ten bells and a small pipe that are all 16th century. Kind of hard for us to tell - but it looks realy nice. Maybe one day we will find someone who can tell us how old they actually are!
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