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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 918820, member: 2844&quot;]Komo is right, it is a Dutch costume, but the figurine was probably made elsewhere as part of Hollandmania.</p><p>Hollandmania is the term for a special interest in Dutch country life as part of the late 19th-early 20th century &#039;back to nature&#039; sentiment. An idyllic image for people in the big smog-ridden cities of the world.</p><p><br /></p><p>The costume is based on the one worn in two Dutch fishing villages, Volendam and Urk. It is a nice representation of the costume, although the trousers are black in real life.</p><p>In spite of the fishing village costume I think he is probably meant to be a milk boy with a broken rope on one of his buckets. Could be from a story only known outside the Netherlands. Just like the Hans Brinker story, which we had never heard of until the Americans told us.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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