Opbouw (Vereniging voor Penningkunst 1940, second medal)
Also known as: Opbouw (Vereniging voor Penningkunst 1940, tweede penning)
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1940
Opbouw (Vereniging voor Penningkunst 1940, second medal) — Rijksmuseum object NG-2005-8. Dated by the museum: 1940. Museum attribution: medalist: Han Richters, Netherlands; publisher: Vereniging voor Penningkunst.
Material: bronze (metal). Museum description: Opbouw, 1940. Bronze cast medal. Obverse: Naked man standing astride, seen from the front, head turned to the left, holding a stone with his bent left arm and holding out a trowel in front of him with his extended right arm, with a bare tree (chestnut) to his right behind a loose pile of stones, on which leaves with torches grow above the man's head. Reverse: text with a few leaves.
Evidence at a glance
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Physical characteristics
- Materials
- bronze (metal)
- Dimensions museum
- diameter 6 cm x weight 89.01 g
Identification
- Original title
- Opbouw (Vereniging voor Penningkunst 1940, tweede penning)
- Museum object number
- NG-2005-8
- Museum classification
- medal
Catalogue references
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