{"id":11849,"date":"2012-10-24T01:06:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T01:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?p=11849"},"modified":"2012-10-24T01:27:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T01:27:41","slug":"sigillum-novi-belgii-seal-of-the-new-belgium-museum-of-the-city-of-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2012\/10\/24\/sigillum-novi-belgii-seal-of-the-new-belgium-museum-of-the-city-of-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"SIGILLUM NOVI BELGII &#8211; Seal of the New Belgium &#8211; Museum of the City of New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/manhattan\/new-amsterdam-seal.jpg?resize=575%2C508\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"508\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/manhattan\/seal-of-new-belgium.jpg?resize=575%2C767\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"767\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Seal of The Province of New Netherland, 1623<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em> Two shields constitute the center of the seal. Superimposed upon a larger shield is a small shield depicting, in diagonal position, a beaver. A string of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wampum\" target=\"_blank\">wampum<\/a>, the dominant motif of the larger shield, encircles the small shield. Directly above the two shields and forming the crest is a count&#8217;s coronet positioned between single stars. Encircling the two shields is the printed legend, SIGILLUM NOVI BELGII. The whole is encircled by a sharply serrated wreath.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The beaver, signifying continuing prosperity, was the commodity upon which the original commerce of New Netherland was founded. In this era, both <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_American_fur_trade\" target=\"_blank\">the beaver skin<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nativetech.org\/wampum\/wamphist.htm\" target=\"_blank\">wampum<\/a> were used as money. The coronet of the count demonstrates that the Province of New Netherland had the armorial rights of a countship. The legend, SIGILLUM NOVI BELGII or &#8220;Seal of the New Belgium&#8221;, recalls an earlier time when the Belgium and Dutch Netherlands were one political entity. &#8211; <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smpub.com\/ubb\/images\/09\/nycseals.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SM Publications &#8211;\u00a0The Resource Center for Silver Collectors, Dealers &amp; Appraisers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seal of The Province of New Netherland, 1623 Two shields constitute the center of the seal. Superimposed upon a larger shield is a small shield depicting, in diagonal position, a beaver. A string of wampum, the dominant motif of the larger shield, encircles the small shield. Directly above the two shields and forming the crest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2162,2163,2164,1569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marble-placques","category-new-amsterdam","category-new-netherlands","category-upper-manhattan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-357","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}