Honorary Medal Awarded by the VOC to Ysbrant Godske for the Construction of the Castle at the Cape of Good Hope, anonymous, 1677 Canvas Print
The necklace consists of profiled, oval links. With a hook and round eye there is a flat oval frame with a medal attached to it. A three-master is engraved on the front of the medal; on the mirror and on the flag in the large mast the monogrammed VOC for the Dutch East India Company. From the stern the flag blows with the Statenleeuw, from bowsprit, fokke- and bezaansmast the tricolor. On the back of the medal is a bird's eye view a castle with five bastions engraved, above which the text 't Casteel d'Goede Hoop, and below it Tot betuyginge that the services that d'E. Ysbrandt Gotske,/ been Synde Raet extraordinaris, en laatst Goever-/ neur aen de Cabo de Bonne Esperance, aen de Neder/ landsche OostIndische Compagnie in verscheyde/ gelegentheden has done, and presented, and/ noch jonghst in 't bouwen van het Casteel/ aen de Cabo de Bonne Esperance geordoneert/ de gemelte Compagnie aengenaem sijn, en/ daer in genoegen gegeven, is/ Sijn E. dese Kettingh en Medaille/ vereert.
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