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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 1708223, member: 2844&quot;]Mostly taken from paintings by the Dutch painter Jan Steen and contemporaries. I always thought these were Dutch, but since Jan Steen is so popular I guess they could have been made anywhere.</p><p><br /></p><p>In this case google translate is to blame, not the seller. It is a Dutch Catawiki listing, and Catawiki uses an automatic G translate program.</p><p>The Dutch seller described it as &#039;latoenkoper&#039;, which means brass sheet. Cast brass is &#039;messing&#039; in Dutch, we differentiate between the two.</p><p>G translate has no idea what &#039;latoen&#039; is and translated it as latin (Latijn in Dutch). &#039;Koper&#039; is copper. </p><p>G translate in its infinite wisdom invented the term latin copper.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Welcome to the internet jungle.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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