Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Elfstedentocht Poster - The Eleven Cities Tour

If you're not Dutch you may have never heard about the Elfstedentocht. You may have if you're an ice skating fan. If I made you curious look here.


I found the map with the tour route, likely issued as a promotional gift by Tetterode, an historic Dutch printing company on a complete poster sized sticker carefully rolled up in it's original cilinder casing. Supporting paper underneath had shrunk with age, causing the folds. But I was sure if carefully done the picture could be transferred perfectly to a solid surface. Someone thought so too and helped me to lose it at €2 within 3 days.

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