Netherlands. A Colonial Order Of The Dutch East Indies (Hindia Belanda)

"Netherlands; Four-piece construction, silver gilt with blue and white enamelled insignia, mounted to an eight-pointed silver gilt star base, marked ""900"" (silver) on the reverse, marked with a Dolphin/Fish hallmark (used from 1859-1893), maker marked with a crown flanked by ""V"" and ""A"" (Van Arckren and Company, registered in Batavia (Jakarta) and Soerabaja, located in the city of Voorschoten, used between 1858-1924) and marked ""800"" (silver) on the silver gilt suspension clip, 62.5 mm (w) x 66 mm (h), intact enamels, extremely fine.

Footnote: The Dutch East Indies (Indonesian: Hindia Belanda) was a Dutch colony. It was formed from the nationalized colonies of the Dutch East India Company, which came under the administration of the Dutch government in 1800.

During the nineteenth century, Dutch possessions and hegemony were expanded, reaching their greatest territorial extent in the early twentieth century. This colony was one of the most valuable European colonies under the Dutch Empire's rule, and contributed to Dutch global prominence in spice and cash crop trade in the nineteenth to earl twentieth century. The colonial social order was based on rigid racial and social structures with a Dutch elite living separate from but linked to their native subjects. The term ""Indonesia"" came into use for the geographical location after 1880. In the early twentieth century, local intellectuals began developing the concept of Indonesia as a nation state, and set the stage for an independence movement. Japan's Second World War occupation dismantled much of the Dutch colonial state and economy. Following the Japanese surrender in August 1945, Indonesian nationalists declared independence which they fought to secure during the subsequent Indonesian National Revolution. The Netherlands formally recognized Indonesian sovereignty at the 1949 Dutch-Indonesian Round Table Conference, with the exception of the Netherlands New Guinea (Western New Guinea), which was ceded to Indonesia only in 1963, under the provisions of the New York Agreement."

This offering is a part of the "Dr. Albert Goodwin Collection", a preeminent assemblage of world Orders, Medals, and Decorations composed solely by Dr.Goodwin between 1946-1967. Dr. Goodwin had a successful career as an educator and prominent physician in New York as well as actively serving in both World Wars with the United States Medical Corps. He acted as both President and Vice-President of the Orders and Medals Society of America (OMSA) and is responsible for organizing their first convention in 1960. He maintained further membership with the American Society of Military Collectors, the International Orders Research Society, and the American Numismatic Society. His knowledge and passion for history and awards is evident in this meticulously compiled collection that is now available in its entirety for the first time exclusively on eMedals.com.