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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4522644, member: 2844"]Many Moroccan crafts were sold in the Netherlands in the 1960s. I even remember the basement of department store "De Bijenkorf" filled with Moroccan and Afghan items. This was before 1970, when we left the country.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tourist items were made in the Maghreb long before the 60s. There are stories of late 19th century Algerian Kabyle Berber silversmiths making their small children wear jewellery while running around, climbing trees, and playing in the dirt. That way the jewellery got dinged and looked old, and it could be sold as antique to tourists.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4522644, member: 2844"]Many Moroccan crafts were sold in the Netherlands in the 1960s. I even remember the basement of department store "De Bijenkorf" filled with Moroccan and Afghan items. This was before 1970, when we left the country. Tourist items were made in the Maghreb long before the 60s. There are stories of late 19th century Algerian Kabyle Berber silversmiths making their small children wear jewellery while running around, climbing trees, and playing in the dirt. That way the jewellery got dinged and looked old, and it could be sold as antique to tourists.;)[/QUOTE]
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