KATANGA...

The first thing that hit me (and you will understand farther why); while consulting for the first time the site, it is the piece of currency of the Katanga... this one:

I know the drawer of this piece personally, and he/it always lives: It is CLAUDE CHARLIER that was a professor (then leading) of the academy of Fine arts in Elisabethville. Currently, he/it is leading of the academy of Fine arts of Namur.
Who is it made me notice something about this piece (do I hold celà of my father). Observe the régime of bananas well and don't find yourselves something that bell? Re picture:

No? Still not? Did you play the game??????   And bien, les bananas of un régime poussent upwards and no toward the bas comme represented on the so-called piece!!!!!!!!! TO the time, Claude Charlier had just arrived to Congo and had participated in a contest in order to make itself/themselves notice. He/it didn't realize his/her/its mistake that after the striking of the pieces! Other info with regard to Claude Charlier, it is he that "beat" the two figurines made of copper that decorate the pediment of the theater of Lubumbashi (those that are in the center of the central cylinder).

Benoît Debourse ben.debourse@skynet.be