# Beaker, with Dirk Scheij’s Journey from Cologne to Rees along the Rhine River

- By: Samuel Vercoigne (Haarlem, ca. –1629)
- Date: 1628
- Medium: silver (metal)
- Classification: cup
- Dimensions: height 24 cm x diameter 14 cm x diameter 10 cm x weight 739 g
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/NG-NM-589--87ed8c2cc4d689c2525a2334474298e8)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/KAwLy/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

At the end of December 1626, Dirk Scheij captures a Spanish paymaster in Cologne who is carrying the salaries for all of the Spanish soldiers stationed along the Rhine River. Scheij sails the river to Rees and delivers his loot to Frederick Henry. To record this feat for posterity he has the story of his journey engraved on this beaker. It ends at the bottom with the Dutch lion and an Orange tree in an enclosure: they defend the Republic.