The rectangular Royal Delft commemorative maiolica cloisonné tile decorated in colours with a Dutch landscape with two rail roads and the signal on red. With the Dutch text:
VERZET VOOR VADERLAND (Resistance for the Fatherland.)
Spoorwegstaking sept.1944 Mei 1945 (Railway strike, No railway transport.) Marked on the back with the impressed factory mark:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND - ANNO 1945
Design by: H.J. Tieman,
Employment dates 1938 - 1982
20,4 x 14,5 cm. (8 x 5,7 inches.)
Weight: 443 grams.
N.B. The financing of this Railway Strike and the payment for the Railway strikers has been fantastic explained in the Dutch movie The Resistance Banker from 1918.
Here some own photos from the film recording on March 6th, 2017, at the Nederlandsche Bank (Dutch National Bank) on the opposite of our shop, where the fraud was had been committed under the eyes of the German occupiers