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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James Conrad, post: 317245, member: 5066&quot;]Many folks are not aware but once upon a time (1624-1686) New York City was a colony of the Netherlands and known as New Amsterdam. Point being there are A LOT of dutch peeps here in america, maybe more dutch people here than in the Netherlands!</p><p><a href="http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/new-amsterdam-becomes-new-york" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/new-amsterdam-becomes-new-york" rel="nofollow">http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/new-amsterdam-becomes-new-york</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a pic of a late 17th century american dutch Kast probably built in New Amsterdam (aka NYC) at the MET.</p><p><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1988.21/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1988.21/" rel="nofollow">https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1988.21/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]105378[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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