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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 395055, member: 2844&quot;]I have no idea, Rene. Here in the Netherlands we only used Dutch or Indonesian terms, never English ones.</p><p>If D.E.I stands for Dutch East Indies, it would have been put on by someone who spoke English. In Dutch, also in the Dutch colonies, any abbreviation, if ever used, would be N.I. for Nederlands Indië. </p><p>But everyone in the Netherlands knew exactly where Bali was, or the other Indonesian islands for that matter, so an N.I. designation on Balinese items was never used. Something was either called Balinese or Javanese or Sumatran, etc. Overhere Balinese art was always called Balinese (Balisch or Balinees), and designations were never in English. </p><p><br /></p><p>But about the time frame, the geo-political terms Nederlands Indië and Dutch East Indies (in the English speaking world) were still used after WWII, until december 1949.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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