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Re: Help with Old Danish Printed Bricks
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lugnet.loc.nl
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Mon, 24 Jun 2002 21:44:33 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.nl, Saskia van Doesburg writes:
> Well, it's Dutch!
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> > Posterijen - (I think this means literally Post Office?)
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> You're right, well it's more of a company name. "Post Office" would be "Post
> Kantoor".
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> > Automatiek - (I think this means Garage, what is the literal translation
> > Auto Maker?)
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> I have no idea what the translation of "automatiek is", but it means a place
> where you can buy snacks (like a snackbar).
> It's the combination of a snackbar and a gumball-machine (guys! help me out
> here! :-)
> You can get a snack, by inserting a coin in a machine, then you can take the
> snack out of the machine.
> Nothing to do with cars.
In America, they were called Automat's I believe
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> > P.T.T. - (I can't figure out what this is an abreviation for, or what it
> means)
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> That's the company name of the Posterijen.
> Post, Telephone, Telegraf. (PTT).
> Nowadays it's called KPN
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> > Thanks,
> > Clark
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> Hope this helped.
> Saskia
Just my (2) Cents!
Jamie
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