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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 10511001, member: 2844&quot;]The age I mentioned in my first post, late 20th or early 21st century.</p><p>It was made by one of many furniture makers on Madura. They are only known by name by the people who do business with them. There are no famous makers, they are all good, and knowing the maker does not add to the value.</p><p>The text &quot;alas dagang&quot; means something like trading base, so it is not a name.</p><p><br /></p><p>Madura is not highly modernized and subjected to mass tourism like Bali. It is very much a quiet, mostly rural island group where everyone goes about their business the way their families have done for generations. That business includes furniture making and carving, for which they are well known in Indonesia. The Madurese are considered the best carvers in Indonesia, but they never had the marketing and financial support the Balinese carvers had, so you don&#039;t see their work as much internationally.</p><p>I think you can only find the name of your maker if you go to Madura and ask around and show the photo of your cabinet to local furniture makers.</p><p><br /></p><p>That all depends on where you are. I live in the Netherlands, so I can only say what I would do here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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