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Medal - Crafts - The Tailor
| Location | Netherlands |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Diameter | 38 mm |
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| Obverse description | High-relief depiction of a tailor's workshop scene adapted from a 17th-century etching by Jan Luyken and his son Caspar, first published in 1694. A tailor is seated on a workbench sewing, with an apprentice or assistant seated nearby also at work, bolts of fabric visible in the background and foreground. No legend appears in the field. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a Dutch-language rhyme composed by Jan Luyken and Caspar Luyken, first published in 1694, describing the craft of the tailor depicted on the obverse. The text is arranged in multiple lines across the field. The second image shows the complete set of twelve medals housed in a fitted wooden presentation box lined with red velvet. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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