Author: OSTMEIER, J.J.B.
Title: Handleiding bij het schatten, samengesteld ten behoeve van het personeel bij den pandhuisdienst.
Description: (Batavia, Albrecht & Co, 1910). Folio. Original cloth (rebacked). Text and atlas with 66 plates in 1 volume. (12),297 pp. Manual to help pawnshop employees in Indonesia to identify and evaluate Indonesian precious objects that are being submitted to them. With chapters on code of law, gold, silver, platinum, brass, clocks, coins, Javanese weapons, precious stones and batiks including the cultivation of these objects. The atlas volume include hailmarks (2 plates), various parts of the kris (8 plates), small household objects (1 plate), gamelan (1 plate), ornaments (3 plates), precious stones (10 plates) and various batik designs (41 plates). - A very detailed manual. - (With some annotations and additions). - Rare. Cat. KITLV, 4th Supplement, p.101.

Keywords: Indonesia Indonesia art