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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bob Davis, post: 4358491, member: 44382&quot;]There is a monumental tray of his selling on Catawiki right now (<a href="https://www.catawiki.com/nl/l/53732377-800-zilver-indonesie-midden-20e-eeuw" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.catawiki.com/nl/l/53732377-800-zilver-indonesie-midden-20e-eeuw" rel="nofollow">https://www.catawiki.com/nl/l/53732377-800-zilver-indonesie-midden-20e-eeuw</a>) with the ZN mark, dated 6th January 1951. Now it could be from before the war and inscribed afterward, but I doubt it. Silversmithing diminished dramatically with the loss of the domestic Dutch market during the 40&#039;s, and there would have been significant risk of confiscation and theft during the Japanese occupation and the independence movement immediately after liberation, with very limited sales to Japanese officers. It only picked up again with the trend of giving political gifts to diplomats and other officials during the late 40&#039;s, and the rise of tourism in the 50&#039;s, so I rather think it would have been made to order, maybe part of one of his famous tea sets. The pattern has interior fluting, which is definitely a pre-war style, so he obviously survived the war, and so his work stretches from the 1930&#039;s to at least the 1950&#039;s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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