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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 535429, member: 2844"]Welcome Nino. That is a beautiful piece.</p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/img_20190314_105308-jpg.168264/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I am in the Netherlands, and here we would call this a 'schuttersketen', a marksman's chain. It is awarded to the best marksman in a series of shooting competitions, usually with bow and arrow or crossbow, occasionally rifle. Nowadays women also compete.</p><p>The best marksman is 'king' of the guild, hence the crown.</p><p>The guilds used to protect towns, but now they are part of local folklore. The guild king's name and title, sometimes for several years in a row, is engraved on the shield. This hasn't happened on yours, so it looks like it was commissioned, but never awarded.</p><p><br /></p><p>With that silvermark I think German. Could we see closeups of the other medallions? Those could tell us more of the origin.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/img_20190314_105342-jpg.168265/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is a 16th century Dutch 'schuttersketen', from the days when the guilds really needed to protect their towns.</p><p>One shield with crest is shown separately. It originally had a lot of those little shields attached around the bottom, for the successive guild kings:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhistoriek.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads-phistor1%2F2015%2F07%2FBK-2014-29-1-e1437734341211.jpg&sp=310cece9cfcd39e7a5df3fea0fd3257f" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This chain belonged to the guild of St George in the town of Bergen op Zoom. St George features on the chain:</p><p><img src="https://historiek.net/wp-content/uploads-phistor1/2015/07/BK-2014-29-12-e1437735352174.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 535429, member: 2844"]Welcome Nino. That is a beautiful piece. [IMG]https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/img_20190314_105308-jpg.168264/[/IMG] I am in the Netherlands, and here we would call this a 'schuttersketen', a marksman's chain. It is awarded to the best marksman in a series of shooting competitions, usually with bow and arrow or crossbow, occasionally rifle. Nowadays women also compete. The best marksman is 'king' of the guild, hence the crown. The guilds used to protect towns, but now they are part of local folklore. The guild king's name and title, sometimes for several years in a row, is engraved on the shield. This hasn't happened on yours, so it looks like it was commissioned, but never awarded. With that silvermark I think German. Could we see closeups of the other medallions? Those could tell us more of the origin. [IMG]https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/img_20190314_105342-jpg.168265/[/IMG] This is a 16th century Dutch 'schuttersketen', from the days when the guilds really needed to protect their towns. One shield with crest is shown separately. It originally had a lot of those little shields attached around the bottom, for the successive guild kings: [IMG]https://s14-eu5.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhistoriek.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads-phistor1%2F2015%2F07%2FBK-2014-29-1-e1437734341211.jpg&sp=310cece9cfcd39e7a5df3fea0fd3257f[/IMG] This chain belonged to the guild of St George in the town of Bergen op Zoom. St George features on the chain: [IMG]https://historiek.net/wp-content/uploads-phistor1/2015/07/BK-2014-29-12-e1437735352174.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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