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| Front & Rear View Phra Kleep Bua of Wat Ling Khob |
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| Due to the amulets have been in the wet-hot hollow of Jedi for a long time, some pieces may cover with fungus stains on their surface. Fungus stains on baked clay votive tablets from old historical sites help much on identifying its authenticity. The above Kleep Bua Wat Ling Khob is "Doo Ngai"(easy to identify) by its fungus stains which is prefered by veteran or professional collectors. The fake makers also have some trick to make artificial fungus stains by using black indian ink splashing on it. | |
| Verification on fungus stains | |
 Enlarged fungus stains |
1.Fungus
stain color is brown/black. 2. Real fungus stains is very thin layer, but artificial stains splashed with black indian ink and has no layer. 3. The fungus stain layer has multi-tone 4. It has wriggly edge 5. The fungus stains could not be cleaned with simple way, and its root pierced into the amulet mass. |
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| The good shape and beautiful KleepBua of Wat LingKhob. Its surface is rather clean. Only few fungus stains are seen, please notice the long black stain on Buddha's left forehand. Most Kleep Bua of Wat LingKhob have finger print on their back. | |
| A Little Big Amulet Phra KleepBua Wat LingKhob, B.E.2411 |
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| Dimensions: 1.9 x 2.9 cm Material:
Baked clay The above baked clay votive tablets were found a in a Jedi of Wat LingKhob, Bangkok, in B.E.2509. LP Sri(Phra Sumethacharn), the then Abbot, and Chang Wang Toh, a high ranking official, help made them in B.E.2411. After a blessing ceremony presided by Somdej Phra Phutdhacharn Toh of Wat Rakang, all the amulets were contained in the Jedi's hollow. The Jedi is located by the Chao Phraya River. By water gradual erosion, the Jedi's base later became a big hole. One day in B.E.2509, a large amount of the votive tablets poured out of the Jedi. Many people snapped up these amulets. A Phra Somdej Wat Rakang blessed by Somdej Phra PhutdhaCharn Toh presently costs approximately 1,000,000-10,000,000 Baht. But Phra KleepBua of Wat Lingkhob--a little big amulet-- which was also blessed by Somdej Toh just costs many thousands times cheapers. If we really have profoundedly deep backgrounds on some kinds of amulets, we will pay only a little amount of money for a real BIG value item. |
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