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Pin made in China, in the cultural revolution period. The pin is about the CECF import and export fair.
China Import and Export Fair, also known as Canton Fair, was established in the spring of 1957. Co-hosted by the Ministry of Commerce of PRC and the People’s Government of Guangdong Province and organized by China Foreign Trade Centre, it is held every spring and autumn in Guangzhou, China. As a comprehensive international trading event with the longest history, the largest scale, the most complete exhibit variety, the largest buyer attendance, the broadest distribution of buyers’ source country and the greatest business turnover in China, Canton Fair is hailed as China’s No.1 Fair and the barometer of China’s foreign trade.
This pin once belonged to Mrs. Koomen. In the 1960’s and early 1970’s Mrs. Koomen (who was Dutch) lived in Canada and began to trade in Chinese artificial flowers and later Chinese antiques. She often went to China and was a welcome guest. As the story goes she was one of the first Western woman to meet Mao Zedong. Her brother Theo Koomen was a well known Dutch sports reporter who tragiclly died in a car accident in 1984. On the pictures there is a news article about Mrs. Koomen and a inventation for a fireworks show on her husband’s name.
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