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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jennifer Plesman Jackson, post: 602621, member: 10711&quot;]I cannot tell you how incredibly excited I am that you posted this here.&nbsp; Yes, Dad was Dutch but was born in Den Haag.&nbsp; BUT, mom was born in Suriname!!!!&nbsp; Her dad was a shoemaker there and we go back several generations. Our family history shows that one of the plantations was owned by the Berners. Wow, this is such wonderful news about this stool.&nbsp; Maybe this is something of my Grandfathers.&nbsp; I have nothing of his other than two photos. I visited Suriname many times with Mom when she would go to see her dad (who died at age 95) and her half brother and his family. My sister even went there to live from 1983 to 1987 but came back due to all the shortages and the scary political situation at the time.&nbsp; I have quite a bit of Suriname blood in me as my grandmother was 25% West African. And there were others as well. Anyway, I digress and I now know the origin of this fabulous stool made by the Marrons. (In my digging regarding the plantation the Berners owned, I read up about the Marrons and many other aspects of the plantations there which differed from those in other countries.) Again, thank you for posting here! I!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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