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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeff Drum, post: 4336310, member: 6444&quot;]It&#039;s certainly possible, but I&#039;ll show you why I think it is consistent with work from the 80&#039;s/90&#039;s. I first encountered carvings from Bali in a small import shop in lower east side of NYC when I was visiting my sister in the 80&#039;s, was blown away by the striking paint colors and bought a couple of pieces very much like this. At the time I didn&#039;t care about getting antiques, I just loved the work (and the fact that it was ridiculously inexpensive helped too).</p><p><br /></p><p>But even better, I recently got several reference pieces from an estate cleanout of a world traveller who bought tourist items in his travels and marked all of his purchases with the country and the year made/bought. He wasn&#039;t buying antiques, but tourist items. This piece is marked Bali 1986, shares the coloration and close enough to look to me like it could have been from the same batch:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]357347[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]357348[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]357349[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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