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Distelfink
Bird motif in visual art / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A distelfink is a stylized goldfinch, probably based on the European variety.[1] It frequently appears in Pennsylvania Dutch folk art.[2] It represents happiness and good fortune and the Pennsylvania German people, and is a common theme in hex signs and in fraktur. The word distelfink (literally 'thistle-finch') is (besides Stieglitz) the German name for the European goldfinch.[3]
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