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30 Days of Amsterdam Gable Stones: street name
This might translate to “porridge bridge street” but it’s unclear.
30 Days of Amsterdam Gable Stones: Geurt Brinkgreve
Many of Amsterdam’s restored buildings are still here today because Geurt Brinkgreve fought to restore buildings in the city center after WWII and through the rest of the 1900s.
30 Days of Amsterdam Gable Stones: Measures
Maat means measure, but kooren translates to choir, so this one doesn’t make sense to me.
30 Days of Amsterdam Gable Stones: Hourglass
this is a tribute to a monument keeper. See https://www.amsterdamsebinnenstad.nl/binnenstad/194/gevelstenen.html
30 Days of Amsterdam Gable Stones: Bird
It could be a penguin, but I’m not sure.
30 Days of Amsterdam Gable Stones: City Scene
This translates to ” In the city of Bordee” although it is on a wall in Amsterdam. Apparently, it is referring to Bordeaux in France. See https://www.flickr.com/photos/vvag/2983938142
30 Days of Amsterdam Gable Stones: Wolves and Hunting
These are on the same building and translate to “the old wild wolf” and “the lost labor”, or at least I think it does.
30 Days of Amsterdam Gable Stones: Saving Bridges
This is a new one and translates to “tirelessly saving bridges”.
The Adventures of Lorie and Brian Groth 