Attached are some pictures of Avalon shortly after the Overloon museum opened in 1946/47. The tank still had a lot of its original fittings, stowage bins, spare chain and track links welded to the turret. Above all, the tank still was still in its original paint.
Colour pic; source:
https://studiezaal.erfgoedhuisweert.nl/
picture with the children... picture with men standing on the tank.....and the head on picture:
https://www.nationaalarchief.nl
The last picture is a section of another Dutch Archives picture.
