Author: DELI [CULTUUR] MAATSCHAPPIJ BRANDWEER CORPS [FIRE BRIGADE DELI COMPANY DINNER]:
Title: Branddiner van den D.M.B.C. [Deli [Cultuur] Maatschappij Brandweer Corps]. [Original dutch language dinner menu].
Description: S.I. [Medan], D.M.B.C., 933. 8°. In-plano. [220x140mm.]. Original bi-coloured thin flexible boards. Large red coloured decorative head-piece, 9-course dinner in dutch text, printed within a broad red coloured border, 11 original signatures of fire-men attending dinner on verso of menu, at cost of dutch florins 160,00 [quite a sum in those days), includes an illegible note. Original menu representing a 9-course dinner at Medan [?] held by members of the Deli [Cultuur] Maatschappij Fire brigade Thursday 16 November 1933. An interesting and quite rare ephemeric piece. Few is known about Companies' Fire-brigades on the vast Deli Estates, East Coast Sumatra. Good copy. 9superficial vertical crack to menue, some wear to lower right corner, a clean copy however).

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