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Promotional gift from R.S. Stokvis & Zonen N.V., manufacturer / importer of Austin passenger cars and truck-vans, Austin-Healey sports cars, R.S. bicycles, Bella scooters, Solex, Rap, Puch and Amstel mopeds, Erres washing machines, vacuum cleaners, floor wipers, fans, televisions, radios, record players, electric blankets and portable radios, Fasto geysers, Inventa gas stoves, Cultix Modulinia kitchens and Friventa refrigerators. The first page (fig. 3) can be removed along a perforation line. Undated, year cf. bibliography in "La Meraviglia è Tutela" (Edizione Leucasia, 2003). The entry in this monograph by Mommens includes the following footnote of his wife Patience Gray: An out-of-work dragon slayer turns his attention to the motor car. In 1963 when Norman wanted to carve native Greek marble, Providence intervened with a commission to write a children's book for a large firm in Holland which supplied almost every modern machine required in modern life! The manufacturers required him to include these items in his wonderfully illustrated story. At the same time PG had been invited to write a rudimentary Mediterranean cookbook for chinese sailor-cooks plying between Hong Kong and Sidney, Australia, on ships owned by Alfred Holt of Liverpool. Oddly enough we earned precisely £ 500 each and this enabled us to work and survive on Naxos for the year 1963-64. "
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