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Brilli Brilli souvenir uit Barcelona

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Sent within Berlin on October 7, 1896. Postmark Schöneberg. Subject: the birthday of the recipient Bertha J. - I think her 55th. - living in Moabit. Densely described (according to the writer, many named people (both male and female) congratulated Bertha.)

The Hannoverschen Gummiwerke Excelsior company was founded in 1862 in Hannover, which manufactured rubber products and thus also entered the pneumatic tyre market. These tyres became known under the brand name Excelsior. However, the company would merge into Continental AG in 1928, although that did not immediately mean the end of the Excelsior brand name. Today, however, we know these tyres as Continental.

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Het Stedelijk Museum, met de aankondiging van de tentoonstelling Anselm Kiefer, in Amsterdam, Nederland
The Stedelijk Museum, with the announcement of the Anselm Kiefer exhibition, in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Das Stedelijk Museum, mit der Ankündigung der Anselm-Kiefer-Ausstellung, in Amsterdam, Niederlande
متحف Stedelijk، مع الإعلان عن معرض أنسلم كيفر، في أمستردام، هولندا
阿姆斯特丹Stedelijk博物馆，安塞尔姆·基弗展览公告，荷兰
Il Museo Stedelijk, con l'annuncio della mostra di Anselm Kiefer, ad Amsterdam, Paesi Bassi
De Stedelijk Musée, mat der Ukënnegung vun der Anselm Kiefer Ausstellung, zu Amsterdam, Holland

Say, If you need a cart, think of Jan Verhoeff (in Rotterdam).

The word “kar” or “karretje” is sometimes used in Dutch for a (reliable, solid) bicycle.

Advertisement in Dutch weekly sports magazine in July 1911.

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Criminal record caught - It can go hard. Don't speed up your e-bike. Get home safely.

Blurred bottom. No idea why. Never happened before.

Private Photo

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Conductor/vocals/keys with members of La La L'Affiche Koor;
BMK Aankondiging!/Het Bellamy Mannen Koor;
Caspar Flickhof, Amsterdam,
December 21st, 2024;

© co broerse/a dor hout production

BMK Aankondiging!/Het Bellamy Mannen Koor;
Caspar Flickhof, Amsterdam,
December 21st, 2024;

© co broerse/a dor hout production

Stationsplein Delft Aankondiging Eindtijd

naar IJzendijke met het drukwerk

Clipping from the Paris Match in 1953, my year of birth.

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An early Peter's Union advertisement. Why anyone calls a type of bicycle tyre 'typecourse' escapes me at the moment.

"Peter's Union Typecourse tyres serve to reduce your tyre budget. Please ask gentlemen riders."

H.H. means gentlemen ('Heeren'). Old-fashioned, solemn Dutch, of course.

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In 1879, Mr Bastiaan (Bas) Bakker started a rubber factory in Ridderkerk, just southeast of Rotterdam: the 'Nederlandsche Caoutchouc en Gutta-Percha-fabriek St.Joris'. In popular speech, the name was soon shortened to 'the Gutta'. Later, people also spoke of the 'soft Baker'. This was to distinguish it from the Machine Factory and Steel Foundry Bakker, 'the hard Bakker', also founded by him.
Tyres for vehicles, from bicycles to trucks, were important but not his only products.

Originally, Bakker was a flax builder and flax merchant. He also introduced machinery for machining flax. As this caused him a lot of trouble with the irregular supply of machine parts, he also started casting small parts in iron and metal around 1863.

With the rise of cotton and better processing of jute, there was little to nothing left to earn in the flax industry by the 1870s.

Through his many travels through Europe, Mr Bakker came across raw, unprocessed rubber (= 'gutta-percha') in England. He understood that this rubber (much mined in the Dutch East Indies) would have numerous uses in the Netherlands and beyond.

In 1879, he therefore also established a gutta-percha factory.

From 1912, Bakker Bzn's son, also named Bastiaan, worked as a manager in the rubber factory. He used his knowledge from international laboratories to make many new articles. He also improved the layout of the rubber factory. For instance, after a remodelling in 1914, the presses and boilers were no longer criss-crossed.

In 1985, the company was acquired by Swedish rubber group Trelleborg, which closed the factory near the old village centre in June 2023. On the site will come highly desirable housing development.

Trelleborg Ridderkerk BV/PA Infrastructure is said to continue in the Netherlands as an engineering and service company. But I have not been able to find how, what and where.

Also funny: the typesetter did not have r's for the word 'Motorcycles' and so used two p's. Barely visible, but just compare the letters with the 'r' on the right.

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Advertisement from 1961 or 1962.

For supple, elastic muscles.

The composition of Daro Massage Oil is adapted to the prescriptions of famous foreign professional-clubs and to opinions of leading masseurs.

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