Hi Gene,
I only can tell you my own findings about these shields, when I did a little research for my own on these shields.
In the real old museumcollections, the brass shields from Aceh are all very plain, and besides the knobs, at the most a few rings or even nothing as decoration.
Also the brass Aceh shields within private collections with provenance of being pre 1900, are all plain and not that heavily decorated...
When you see these decorated brass shields in museumcollections, the earliest were collected in the first half of the 20th century (mostly the latter part of the first half even), or even the last half of the 20th century.
So some of these more decorated shields have nice old patina though.
A senior collector ones told me they are minangkabau shields...
Hope this is a bit usefull,
Maurice
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