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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 436121, member: 6370&quot;]here are translations given to me by someone else on another forum, I think he has a good bit right, but maybe a few might be off:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In small black type around border: </p><p>Left: HOLSTE&#039;S BIELEFELDER-STÄRKE / Right: BIELEFELDER-LEINEN</p><p>--&gt; refers to the material (starch and cloth)</p><p><br /></p><p>DRUCK: E. GUNDLACH A.G. BIELEFELD. - GESETZLICH GESCHÜTZT D.G.M.</p><p>--&gt; the printer and copyright notice</p><p><br /></p><p>In bold red type around border from top left: </p><p>DIE STADTSPARKASSE BIELEFELD ZAHLE GEGEN DIESE PLATZANWEISUNG AUS UNSEREM GUTHABEN AN UBERBRINGER</p><p><b>--&gt; The Stadtsparkasse (savings bank) Bielefeld is to pay against this note</b> (Platzanweisung is an odd word IMO ...) <b>from our assets to the bearer</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Small type in black forming triangles from upper left: </p><p>Red Horse: 30 PREUSS(ische) KRIEGER FÜHRTEN DIE SIEGESGÖTTIN NACH BERLIN ZURÜCK</p><p><b>--&gt; 30 Prussian soldiers/warriors led the Victory Goddess back to Berlin</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Red Man: VIVAT ES LEBE FRAU (?) CHRISTINE SCHILDERMANN DIENSTMÄDCHEN IN BIELEFELD</p><p><b>--&gt; Vivat, long live Ms Christine Schildermann, maid (home help) in Bielefeld</b> (no idea who that is)</p><p>Blue Horse: 6 WAGEN PASSIERTEN MIT FRANZ(ösischen) FUHRLEUTEN AM 30. MAI 1814 DEN GEHRENBERG</p><p><b>--&gt; 6 cars (probably horse drawn vehicles) passed, with French coachmen, on 30 May 1814 the Gehrenberg</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Blue Man: WAS TYRANNEI GERAUBT DAS SCHENKTEST DU UNS WIEDER! REMPEL PROREKTOR</p><p><b>--&gt; What tyranny stole, you gave us back! Rempel Prorektor</b> (could be somebody‘s name and title)</p><p><br /></p><p>Large text bordering inner color fields:</p><p>ZUR 700JÄHRIGEN 1221-1921 JUBILÄUMSFEIER</p><p>DER STADT BIELEFELD AM 15 JULI 1921</p><p><b>--&gt; To the 700 year 1221-1921 jubilee celebration of the city of Bielefeld on 15 July 1921</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Around 25 Mark Left: BIELEFELDER LEINEWAND / IM RAVENSBERGER LAND</p><p><b>--&gt; refers to Bielefeld cloth again, Ravensberg is the name of the region</b></p><p>Around 25 Mark Right: BEWERTE MIT HURRA / HOCH LEB GERMANIA</p><p><b>--&gt; Assess with hooray / Long (lit. high) live Germania</b></p><p><br /></p><p>On the left tower: DEUTSCHE TREUE DENK AN DEN 20 MAI 1814 IN BIELEFELD</p><p><b>--&gt; German loyalty - think of the 20 May 1814 in Bielefeld</b></p><p><br /></p><p>On the right tower: HOFFNUNGSVOLLES ZUKUNFTSGLÜCK SEI DEUTSCHLANDS LOS</p><p><b>--&gt; Hopeful future luck be Germany&#039;s lot</b> (sounds about as strange in German as it sounds in English ...)</p><p><br /></p><p>That note apparently combines two themes: First, the 700 year jubilee of the city of Bielefeld in 1921, and the &quot;repatriation&quot; of the Quadriga, a statue on top of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. In 1806 the Quadriga was brought from Berlin to Paris by the French army; in 1814 the Prussian army brought it back to Berlin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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