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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BTZ64, post: 2643243, member: 12715&quot;]Thanks for your reply....Every saving boxes or jewelry boxes on stand or fixed were called Petgama at the time...and used in a way to be difficult to steal..So Ebony and heavy woods were used for it.....The photos you are showing...Are modern immitatation look alike furnitures which have still the fresh leaves of the tree used down in the courtyard of the carpentry.....I recommand you to read the book called Furniture of Dutch period in Ceylon&nbsp; by Richard Leslee Brohier....A bible of acknowledgement of this Period....Very interesting...!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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