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A blog for clarifying and continuing the findings that were published in Camoupedia: A Compendium of Research on Art, Architecture and Camouflage, by Roy R. Behrens (Bobolink Books, 2009).

Saturday, August 31, 2019

Maurice Ketten dreams that he is Maurice Ketten


Posted by Roy R. Behrens at 11:04 AM
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Labels: artists, camo, camoflage, camouflage, cartoons, drawing, humor, nonsense, World War I, WWI
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