MARK OF JAN VAN HEDEL (HEEL), GORCUM, 1618

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A Dutch silver "penningendoos" counter box
Mark of Jan van Hedel (Heel), Gorcum, 1618
Cylindrical, on a reeded rim, the body with a central applied reeded band, the lower part and upper part engraved with a band of stylised foliage within two plain bands alternated with three plaited bands of stylised foliage, upper reeded rim, detachable slightly domed cover with reeded rims, later inscribed Penningen doos within later laurel wreath, marked on base
13.5 cm. high
164 gr.

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Lot Essay

Cf. Frederiks, J.W., Dutch Silver, part II, The Hague, 1958, no. 419, illustrated, for an earlier, slightly smaller, almost identically engraved counter box made by the anonymous master of the flower in Dordrecht in 1602.
This box is preserved in the collection of the Royal Cabinet of Coins in The Hague and was exhibited in the Hague Municipal Museum in 1952, no. 194. The catalogue describes the box as 'een busje voor het opbergen van rekenpenningen'.

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