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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 408645, member: 2844&quot;]It could be a Dutch BKR-piece. Made for the &#039;Beeldende Kunstenaars Regeling&#039;, financial support for artists as a recognition for their importance during times of war. </p><p>Artists in the BKR had to hand art in regularly.</p><p><br /></p><p>The BKR was set up because without the artists who forged identity papers, food stamps, etc, thousands more people would have been executed, deported, or have died of starvation during WWII. Something recent governments decided to disregard, after all, there will never be another war, right? What do we need artists for anyway.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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