Nederland medaille 1914 Netherlands medal 1914 - 75 years Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorwegmaatschappij - first Dutch railway Amsterdam Haarlem 1839 - J.C. W VF

Netherlands, medal of 1914 for the seventy fifth anniversary of the Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorwegmaatschappij, the Holland Iron Railway Company, 1839 to 1914. Designed by J.C. Wienecke.

Obverse: a man with a curved rail on his shoulders, around him the crowned arms of the provinces through which the lines run.

Reverse: a map showing the railway network.

The Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorwegmaatschappij was founded on 8 August 1837 as a private company. On 20 September 1839 the first train in the Netherlands ran between Amsterdam and Haarlem, along a track that followed the straight line of the Haarlemmertrekvaart canal. That made the HIJSM the first railway company in the country. In the seventy five years that followed, that single stretch of track grew into the network shown on the reverse of this medal. The maker, Johannes Cornelis Wienecke, lived from 1872 to 1945 and was one of the best known Dutch medallists of his day. The man with the rail on his shoulders is typical of his work: not a king or a coat of arms as the main figure, but the labourer who laid the track.

Small hole at 12 o'clock.

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