Old, small, bronze, monkey with loop on back

[paulb104]

We pulled this little guy out of an old box that hadn't seen sunlight in probably thirty or more years. The monkey is cast bronze, there is a mold line on the back, and there's no markings. We've never seen a string tied in such a way before but it seems Asian. It is about 33mm tall, 17mm wide, and weighs 22 grams - heavy for it's size.

If it didn't have the loop we thought it might be an opium weight, but we'd never seen an opium weight as a 'charm'.

There's the idea that it might be netsuke, but I'm not sure if netsuke were made of bronze.

[to be clear, this is one monkey, just different views...]

 

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[HuntinDog]

What you have is a Chinese Year of the Monkey Charm.
If you were born in the years 1944,1956,1968,1980,1992,2004,2016 you were born in the year of the Monkey.

 

[paulb104]

You do you know it is that? When is it from? Where was it made?