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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 1735409, member: 2844&quot;]Toast can be perfect with a cup of tea.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect the ships and warehouses are a reference to the old Hansa or Hanseatic league, of which northern German trading cities and towns were member. It was an early international trade association in Northern European countries, 14th-17th centuries.</p><p>I think the pokal could be from northern Germany or German infuenced parts of northeastern Europe. After the Hansa period, Hansa culture lives on to this day.</p><p><br /></p><p>Map of the Hansa ca 1400 (my province is also on it, the lower part of the yellow bit in the west <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie49" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />):</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Ausbreitung_der_Hanse_um_das_Jahr_1400-Droysens_28.jpg/1920px-Ausbreitung_der_Hanse_um_das_Jahr_1400-Droysens_28.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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