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Originally Posted by Maurice
Hi Gene,
I only can tell you my own findings about these shields, when I did a little research for my own on these shields.
In the real old museumcollections, the brass shields from Aceh are all very plain, and besides the knobs, at the most a few rings or even nothing as decoration.
Also the brass Aceh shields within private collections with provenance of being pre 1900, are all plain and not that heavily decorated...
When you see these decorated brass shields in museumcollections, the earliest were collected in the first half of the 20th century (mostly the latter part of the first half even), or even the last half of the 20th century.
So some of these more decorated shields have nice old patina though.
A senior collector ones told me they are minangkabau shields...
Hope this is a bit usefull,
Maurice
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Hi Maurice
Very helpful thanks.
I notice that the old 'plain' ones look 'spun' and quite thin compared to the cast ones?
I had already assumed that these were 20thC (hopefully first half). Thats fine, they are a whole lot nicer than their 20th century brass Indian counterparts!
Best
Gene