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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 1855909, member: 2844&quot;]Agree, signed Normand.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think those are clouds.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> It all looks very Dutch to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>H. v.d. (= van de, or van der) Zedde &amp; Zn (Dutch). Zn is short for Zonen, sons.</p><p>So it was framed by a Dutch frame shop called H. van der Zedde and Sons. Robert can probably tell us where the shop was.</p><p><br /></p><p>Although there is an overlap between Dutch and Belgian names, van der Zedde is too &#039;nordic&#039; to be Belgian, imo. Besides, Belgians usually write it vander, instead of van der.</p><p>Zedde is the name of a hamlet near Volendam, which in turn is not far from Amsterdam, North Holland. The ancestors of van der Zedde would have been from Zedde.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was an H. van der Zedde who was a member of the Dutch Resistance during WWII:</p><p><a href="http://www.stichtingvriendenkring13april1945.nl/?page_id=418" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.stichtingvriendenkring13april1945.nl/?page_id=418" rel="nofollow">http://www.stichtingvriendenkring13april1945.nl/?page_id=418</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry guys, it is in Dutch, but Robert and Romy can read it.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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