Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/17

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Subject: [Leica] #358
From: geebee at geebeephoto.com (GeeBee)
Date: Mon Oct 17 08:33:06 2005
References: <BF792EC0.6EF0%philippe.orlent@pandora.be> <43537DBE.9000307@gmx.de>
 
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Sent: 17 October 2005 11:32
Subject: Re: [Leica] #358


>
The decorations are similar to those painted by
> Romany (Gypsy) families on their carts and waggons. The bargees, as they
> were called, decorated just about every inch of their boats and you can
> often find water jugs and other bits and pieces painted in this style in
> souvenir shops along the canals. Supposedly the R&C decorations go back
> to Romany themes from Rumania (or so I was told by a bargee family in
> Hebden Bridge).
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