We find three suitcases in the Thins/Vermeer home. One of them is a 'wooden suitcase painted green with iron straps and fittings','een groen geschilderde houte koffer met yser beslagen', In the small room off the Grand Hall, room G.
As
far as I know, Dutch dolls houses do not yield examples of a
seventeenth century suitcases. The suitcase shown here dates from
1745 and is part of a ship's iventory. It is filled with the
necessities for just one shipmate. Collection Westfries Museum,
Hoorn.
Note : This object was part of the Vermeer-inventory as listed by the clerk working for Delft notary public J. van Veen. He made this list on February 29, 1676, in the Thins/Vermeer home located on Oude Langendijk on the corner of Molenpoort. The painter Johannes Vermeer had died there at the end of December 1675. His widow Catherina and their eleven children still lived there with her mother Maria Thins.
The transcription of the 1676 inventory, now in the Delft archives, is based upon its first full publication by A.J.J.M. van Peer, "Drie collecties..." in Oud Holland 1957, pp. 98-103. My additions and explanations are added within square brackets [__]. Dutch terms have been checked against the world's largest language dictionary, the Dictionary of the Dutch Language (Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal , or WNT), which was begun by De Vries en Te Winkel in 1882.
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