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Originally Posted by Bill A
Marc, a follow up question. Is there a date that the BeVo type material was being manufactured?
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I do not have a date, but, I have been told that it would be after the area was liberated.
After reading a little on the E. en E., site, both Brabant and BeVo are made using the same type of machine developed by a Frenchman called Jacquard, it used a roll of material fed into a weaving machine at the same time a card strip was fed in with a series of holes in the strip the machine extracts the information from the card and weaves a design into the base material.
It looks as though the Germans (BeVo) used a rayon or artificial silk material and the E. en E. (Brabant) version a thicker material. There are a number of Dutch badges (Luc's Album) that were worn through the 1950s, so both the Dutch and German made badges were being worn at the same time.
My thoughts.
Marc
