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Title page text imprint: Publisher GAZELLE RIJWIELFABRIEK DIEREN. [Without letters N.V.] Special characteristics: The front cover font is larger than other prints. The word 'zyn' has a different font. The print is curled to the bottom left, not to the right! The booklet is stapled and contains a fixed folding strip. Back width: 0.70 cm. Picture 3a is the factory and 3b comic pages. Sometimes there was a dealer who stamped the booklet. The oval purple print is known: W. Herman Smederij and bicycle dealer. Warmenhuizen. The 1st artistic print book for children aged 8 to 80 was available free of charge to potential and existing Gazelle drivers through the agencies. If there was no Gazelle dealer in the area, it could be ordered from the Gazelle factory in Dieren. In the 1930s, reprints were also given as promotional material for Gazelle children's bicycles. The Haarlem artist Ko Doncker already designed Piet Pelle in 1908 for the Gazelle Rijwielfabriek.
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