Honorary Medal Awarded by the VOC to Ysbrant Godske for the Construction of the Castle at the Cape of Good Hope, anonymous, 1677 The chain consists of profiled, oval links. With a hook and round eye, there is a flat oval list with a medal attached to it. A three -mast is engraved on the front of the medal; On the mirror and on the flag in the big mast the monogram VOC for the United Oostindische Compagnie. The flag with the Statenleeuw, Van Boegspriet, Fokke- and Bezaaskens de Driekleur blows from the stern. On the back of the medal, a castle with five bastions is engraved in a nutshell, abov
Honorary Medal Awarded by the VOC to Ysbrant Godske for the Construction of the Castle at the Cape of Good Hope, anonymous, 1677 The chain consists of profiled, oval links. With a hook and round eye, there is a flat oval list with a medal attached to it. A three -mast is engraved on the front of the medal; On the mirror and on the flag in the big mast the monogram VOC for the United Oostindische Compagnie. The flag with the Statenleeuw, Van Boegspriet, Fokke- and Bezaaskens de Driekleur blows from the stern. On the back of the medal, a castle with five bastions is engraved in a nutshell, above which the text 't Casteel d'Oue Hope, and underneath it as a limiting that the services that d'e. Ysbrandt gotske,/ have been synde raet extraordinaris, and last goverlie/ neur aen de Bonne Esperance, aen de Neder/ Landsche Oostindische has done in Verscheyde/ occasions, and/ nor youngst in building the Casteel / Aen de Cabo de Bonne Esperance is signaled/ the melted company Aengenaem sijn, and/ has given up, is/ sijn E. dese chainh and medal/ honors. Amsterdam gold (metal) engraving sailing-ship, sailing-boat. fortress. castle Cape of Good Hope. Castle De Goede Hoop
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