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Nederlandsche Kennel-Club

Dutch
1897
Object Place: The Netherlands

Medium/Technique Metal; bronze
Credit Line Gift of Horace Packard
Accession Number27.286
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsNumismaticsMedals

DescriptionElliptical-shaped medal for the Nederlansche Kennel-Club.

Obverse: Profile bust of a dog looking to proper right with in inscription band, all set within branches; inscribed on band around dog "NEDERLANSCHE KENNEL-CLUB/CYNOPHILIA".

Reverse: Heraldic device with in branches above; inscribed below "10E INTERNATIONALE/HONDEN/TENTOONSTELLING/IN HET/PALEIS VOOR VOLKSVIJT/TE/AMSTERDAM/OP/7, 8 EN 9 MEI/1897/*/BEGEER UTRECHT".
InscriptionsObverse: Inscribed on band around dog "NEDERLANSCHE KENNEL-CLUB/CYNOPHILIA".

Reverse: Inscribed below "10E INTERNATIONALE/HONDEN/TENTOONSTELLING/IN HET/PALEIS VOOR VOLKSVIJT/TE/AMSTERDAM/OP/7, 8 EN 9 MEI/1897/*/BEGEER UTRECHT".
ProvenanceBefore 1927, The Mary Hooper Packard Collection; 1927, gift of Horace Packard to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 5, 1927)