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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 211655, member: 2844&quot;]Most of it is Dutch, and I am sure Gerspee can read it (being Dutch), he has already given a summary.</p><p>What looks like waiting with the ship is &#039;met de sterrenwacht de witte stip&#039;, which literally translates as: with the observatory the white dot. They meant that the white dot on the painting is or marks the observatory on the mountainside.</p><p>It was probably written by a previous Dutch owner who knows the Bandung area very well, maybe grew up there when Indonesia was still a Dutch colony.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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