Cheese Traders - Uithoorn, The Netherlands
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N 52° 13.973 E 004° 49.948
31U E 625140 N 5788522
On the Market Square in Uithoorn reminds a bronze sculpture of two cheese merchants in the major cheese and butter market held here until 1960.
Waymark Code: WMQVEG
Location: Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Date Posted: 03/31/2016
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The municipality scaled the correct weights of the traded products and has been standing at several locations. Leaseholder was inn / pub owner Meindert Rider. Three cheese merchants were there: Matthijs Verdegaal, William and Jacob Hope. Two of them are immortalized in bronze in 1981 by Kees Verkade; The statuette was presented by William M. Hope Foundation. It is on the market, near the Amstel from where the Uithoornse products have been transported elsewhere. In 1960, this market was terminated.
Sector of the workforce: Cheese Traders
Created or Donated by which group: Created by Kees Verkade and presented by William M. Hope Foundation.
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