Stock Photo - Medal of honor Chain with gold medal from Ysbrand Godske, The necklace consists of profiled, oval links. With a hook and round eye there is a flat oval frame with a tag attached to it. A three-master is engraved on the front of the badge, on the mirror and on the flag in the large mast the monogram VOC for the Dutch East India Company. The flag with the Statenleeuw is blowing from the stern, the tricolor of the bowsprit, fokke and mizzen mast. On the reverse of the medal, a castle with five bastions is engraved in a nutshell, above which the text 't Casteel d'Goede Hoop, and below it To betuyginge that the services that d'E. Ysbrandt Gotske, / has been Synde Raet extraordinaris, and most recently Goever / Neuro and the Cabo de Bonne Esperance, has done and presented the Dutch East Indies Company in various ways and / or youngest in building the Castle. / a and the Cabo de Bonne Esperance has ordained / the molten Compagnie aengenaem sijn, and / that has given pleasure, is / Sijn E. dese Kettingh and Medal / honors, Cape of Good Hope, Castle of Good Hope, Ysbrand Godske, Dutch East India Compagnie, anonymous, Amsterdam, 1677, gold (metal), h 8 cm × w 5 cm l 42 cm w 493 gr