can a Dutch speaker identify what this document/card is, please?
http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/56/vveldhuizenjohannastamk.jpg
If it’s not readily apparent from an English translation of what the card is, can I get some background as to its use/meaning/function/etc.
Thanks.
Looks like a pre-WW2 identitykaart…‘en tevens bewijs van geboorteregister’ means ‘also proof of birth’. Not quite sure what the grid on the opposite page indicates
Some quick googling on “Distributie stamkaart” turns up a bunch of Dutch-language info on these documents.
They’re part of the rationing system put in place by the Dutch government in 1939 (so, before the Netherlands were involved in WWII). As far as I can find out, before the occupation only sugar and peas (temporarily) were rationed, and rations were fairly large.
The stamkaart was used to log the use of food/produce stamps and was also proof of registration in the birth-register.
During the occupation more and more products were rationed and in 1943 when food scarcity was becoming a bigger and bigger problem and and resistance and others were using fraudulent rationing documents, a second version of the “distributie stamkaart” was put in place. That second version is the one at Distributiebon - Wikipedia
Addendum:
Actually, I made a mistake here. This document did not log the use of ration stamps, but you did need it to get the stamps.
I guess that the grid on the left indicates the amount of different types of stamps you were allowed. The filled in information on the right is (top to bottom):
Sex, Number (of the document)
Family name
first name
Date of birth
Municipality of birth
Nationality (pre-filled: Dutch)
Municipality and address (filled with name of municipality and something else)
Municipality of issue (Oisterwijk)
Date of issue
Signature of civil servant.
Superfluous Parentheses is right. The card is made out to Johanna, “wife of” a van Snepscheuten (?), and issued in a town called Oisterwijk, which is in the South of the Netherlands.
Actually, the name looks like Veldhuisen to me.
There are some people of that name in my hometown, and when I saw the picture, the name just screamed out at me, BION.
Johanna’s maiden name is Van Veldhuizen (with a z), she’s married to (*echtgen.[ote] van *= spouse of) one Van de Snepscheut.
Just for clarification: that’s a random scan of what I was inquiring about - found off the internet.
If you want to discuss the name and residence of some random person, though, by all means, continue 
As it was a Dutch card I assumed it was one of the many yellow cards they earned in the World Cup final: they resorted to hacking, with 28 fouls and seven yellow cards – five in a span of 14 minutes
Yes very helpful to this conversation and the question raised by the OP :rolleyes:
