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Gaper No. 29. The plume is missing. See and read the booklet. A collection of 41 gapers, published and made by the company Intec in Veenendaal. Only drugstores and pharmacies with sufficient turnover received these, unique, hand-painted gapers. All made of ground natural stone, only No. 41, the last one, is of resin. The molds were finally destroyed at a farewell party for the company in front of the guests. Gapers were identification marks for pharmacies, chemists, and drugstores. They first appeared at the end of the sixteenth century and occur only in Dutch-, Frisian-, and Flemish-language areas. Most of those still used as identification marks today date from the nineteenth century or are replicas. The gaper remains a mysterious phenomenon. The origin is unknown. For its feature, the wide-open mouth, there are several explanations. One is medical: showing your tongue for a diagnosis, and then taking the prescribed medicines. Some gapers indeed have a pill on the tongue or a sulfur match in the mouth. Another explanation could be that the patient, overwhelmed by fatigue, lets his mouth fall open. The most common gapers are Orientals with a turban. There are also fools/jesters, policemen, firefighters, Roman soldiers, and the sick.
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