Rector Cremers Medal
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1985
Prototype of the award medal presented since 1985 by the Natuurhistorisch Genootschap in Limburg. Named after the founder of this society, this Rector Cremers Medal was established on the occasion of its 75th anniversary. The medal shows on the obverse an impression in high relief of part of the Calamites carinatus, a 27-metre-tall fern that occurred 315,000,000 years ago in the swampy Carboniferous forests in present-day Limburg. The impression could be made thanks to a borehole at a depth of 789.7 metres. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-2012-70; its record gives material recorded as wood (plant material), bronze (metal); technique casting; measurements height 5.8 cm x width 14.2 cm x depth 14.2 cm. 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.
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- wood (plant material), bronze (metal)
- Technique
- casting
- Measurements
- height 5.8 cm x width 14.2 cm x depth 14.2 cm
- Dimensions museum
- height 5.8 cm x width 14.2 cm x depth 14.2 cm
Identification
- Original title
- Rector Cremers Penning
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- NG-2012-70
- Museum classification
- award medal · medal box
Catalogue references
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