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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 691890, member: 56"]Front or back, looks the same to me. The ornament seems to integrated into the mesh, as opposed to sitting on top of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>This originated with the German part of the family who immigrated mid-19th C. There is no one left to say with certainty where in Germany they came from. My father sometimes said Saxony, sometimes Swabia. These names were probably half-remembered from childhood. Who knows where they actually originated. The name is a very common one.</p><p><br /></p><p>AJ's first photo is pretty much what I had in mind (from those old National Geographics).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 691890, member: 56"]Front or back, looks the same to me. The ornament seems to integrated into the mesh, as opposed to sitting on top of it. This originated with the German part of the family who immigrated mid-19th C. There is no one left to say with certainty where in Germany they came from. My father sometimes said Saxony, sometimes Swabia. These names were probably half-remembered from childhood. Who knows where they actually originated. The name is a very common one. AJ's first photo is pretty much what I had in mind (from those old National Geographics).[/QUOTE]
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