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those who have helped me, generously given me presents, and shared information freely
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Ex-General Motors colleagues, who have been very generous in letting me have their old Christmas ornaments: Lilianne Kennes and Cois Cools - Wim - Tilly - Louisa - Miriam - Fa Van Ham - Jef Van Genechten - Dolf - Fa Van Gorp - Staf - C. Backeljauw - Fa Meyer - Rita - Fa Brams - Fa Goossens - Mr. & Mrs. F. Paquier - Betty Delanghe - Fa Strobbe |
| My sister and brother in law, who are responsible for the incentive of starting the Advent calendar collection. |
| All the owners of the favorite sites. |
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Robert Iwamasa, expert on figural lights and author of two very specialized books: - “Antique Christmas Figural Light Bulbs”, ISBN 0-9652858-0-4; |
| Peter Nicolaus, specialized in Advent calendars and co-author of several books. |
| Anders Jansson, curator Kulturen, a museum for cultural history in Lund, Sweden. |
| Ilse, Ira, Willy and Maurice, friends always on the lookout for me and have generously contributed to my collection. |
| Jasmien Albertus and Wim van Veen, very generously given me several presents, a.o. a lovely old nativity, and had an antique shop "Porto Bello" in The Hague, Netherlands. |
| Evelyne Gasser, collector of Advent calendars, nativity and St. Nicolas. |
| Esther Gajek, author of the very well known book, "Adventskalender von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart", ISBN 3-7991-6422-7, and specialized in Reichhold & Lang. |
| Hélène and Tuur, collector of a.o. movie posters and have a very nice eatery, DAFISJ, lovely breakfasts and lunches on offer, in Antwerp. |
| Yvonneke, who had a shop "De Snuffeldoos" in the Kloosterstraat in Antwerp. |
| Mimmu Takalo, who has given information on Swedish advent calendars and paper stand-ups, and has an interesting site on scraps |
| Frank Paul for his assistance in dating Stanniol/Lametta and with the Latin text. |
| Susanne Schmidt for additional information on the Kubasta nativities. |
| Mary Bolme for supplying the information on Philips replacement bulbs. |
| Karen Slauenwhite-Eldershaw, Carolyn Andrews and John Strieb for additional information on Advent calendars. |
| Tracee Andrews for her kindness in donating four advent calendars, A184 thru 187. |
| Tony Johnson for sharing knowledge with me. He has a site with lovely authentic Christmas ornaments. |
| Olivier Tsjoen for sharing his extensive knowledge on NB (Nazaire Beeusaert) nativity figures. |
| Jayann Bruce for solving the fuzzy Santa story book, B.E11 |
| Massimo Marzocchetti, an Italian Christmas ornaments collector for information on the Motta box. |
| Ursula Jostock for identifying some of the printer's and publisher's logo's in the cards section. |
| Daniela, www.galanterie-sonneberg.de, who has solved several of the "help" items. |
| Becky Jones in contributing to the information on the company E.O & CO. Sweden, and a lovely Advent calendar via ebay. |
| Thijs Oomens for his assistance getting information regarding the artist of the nativity woodcut. |
| Peter Cauwenberghs for solving the name of the artist of the woodcut: Georg Sedlmair. |
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Andreas Keller for the information on the artist Rolf Keller, his grandfather. More information on Rolf Keller: kellerdoscope.wordpress.com |
| Catherine Swan |
| Mr. Jens Ingvordsen, Christmas Curator Den Gamle By, an open air museum in Denmark, for information on Advent calendars. Also co-author of "Julekalender Bogen" and "Spørg Birgitte! Fest skrift til Birgitte Kjær". |
| Mr. Jeffrey Magadanz for the information and pictures on caps of glass ornaments. |
| Mr. Koskela from Scandinavia for additional information on Advent calendars. |
| Mrs. Renate Knorr, author of the very interesting book "Der Korsch Verlag Adventskalender von 1951 bis 1985". |
| Mr. Xavier Languy with information on printer's and publisher's logo's on the site of Cartophilie.be |
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Firms and City Municipalities for their generosity in responding to my requests for information : |