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<p>[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 10034210, member: 29"]They’re Catalan figures, so they may be Catalan tiles. I’m checking both Spanish and Catalan dictionaries, anyhow. I think the fact that they say Figuras Catalana makes them vanishingly unlikely to be Franco era, given his loathing for the place, and the fact that all things Catalan were banned. That means they’re going to be pre 1939 or after 1979, and I think the latter rather more likely. </p><p><br /></p><p>There’s a lot of tile factories round Valencia, which is a Catalan speaking region of course.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 10034210, member: 29"]They’re Catalan figures, so they may be Catalan tiles. I’m checking both Spanish and Catalan dictionaries, anyhow. I think the fact that they say Figuras Catalana makes them vanishingly unlikely to be Franco era, given his loathing for the place, and the fact that all things Catalan were banned. That means they’re going to be pre 1939 or after 1979, and I think the latter rather more likely. There’s a lot of tile factories round Valencia, which is a Catalan speaking region of course.[/QUOTE]
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