KOG badge with Hercules
Also known as: Draagteken KOG met Hercules
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1950 - 1975
Rectangular brooch of pressed iron with soldered safety pin, depicting Hercules leaning on a club, in the exergue the text KOG. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-2-1148; its record gives material recorded as iron (metal); technique pressing; measurements height 4.1 cm x width 2.8 cm x weight 4.6 g.
Description translated from the museum's Dutch catalogue text; details are those of this museum object, and how far it represents a wider type has not been independently verified.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- iron (metal)
- Technique
- pressing
- Measurements
- height 4.1 cm x width 2.8 cm x weight 4.6 g
- Dimensions museum
- height 4.1 cm x width 2.8 cm x weight 4.6 g
Identification
- Original title
- Draagteken KOG met Hercules
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- KOG-MP-2-1148
- Museum classification
- draagteken · history medal
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
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