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I believe your wooden chop from top to bottom can be:
山約堂 Shan Yao Tang
約 can be the short form for 藥 or 药 which means medicine
however, 山藥 together can mean Dioscorea opposita which is a kind of Chinese yam that can be used either fresh or dried up as medicine:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioscorea_opposita
堂 can mean hall, a large room, it is always used at the end with other words to represent a church,a society, a town hall, a college (學堂) or a shop.
Here, 山約堂 can mean anything including some kind of churches or the name of a large meeting place.
But if it is indeed used with 山藥 which can extend to mean herbal medicine, then 山藥堂 can mean Herbal (medicine) Shop.
Of course, I can be wrong because cursive Chinese is very hard to interpret since each calligrapher can do them very differently. May be others can render their opinions. I cannot find anything on it though. Must be old. Super
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