Needle case to commemorate the battle on the Dogger Bank, The round, tapered case has a screw-on cap with a protruding octagonal top that serves as a seal. It is completely processed in stamping technique. The wall of the cap is decorated with a circling representation of two sailing ships, representing the Battle of Doggersbank. The part below is decorated with the bust of the schout-by-night Arnold Zoutman, above which the name Zoutman. Beneath each medallion is a trophy of an anchor, a halberd, a bundle of arrows, flags, cannons and cannonballs on roughened ground. Two garlands hang from this. A sailing ship is shown below. The stamp is engraved with a palm tree accompanied by the letters E (top) C (bottom left) VAL together (bottom right) in a round crowned shield inside a cartouche. The seal is bordered by a ribbed edge, Dogger Bank, Johan Arnold Zoutman, Isaac Lingenaar, Amsterdam, c. 1781, silver (metal), h 10.1 cm w 1.9 cm × d 1.9 cm × w 19 gr
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