"These are the shoes of old Yde, a bachelor. He has worn them for forty years. He repaired them from below and above, from the inside and the outside. He gave me his shoes, for a bottle of brandy. They protected his feet for forty years. When they broke down, he tore them up and put them back on again. He could have bought new ones, because he already got state pension. But he was married with his shoes. (translation, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)"
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Jopie Huisman
(Workum, 18 October 1922 - 29 September 2000) was a self-taught Dutch painter and draftsman. He is best known for his portraits and for the still-life's with as their subject selected rags and old stuff, Huisman was buying up stuff as professional rag man in Workum and from 1963 in Herbayum; both are villages in Friesland.
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