Street art · Amsterdam
Photo: Marion Golsteijn, CC BY-SA 3.0
This limestone gable stone shows a ship sailing toward a stylized…
This limestone gable stone shows a ship sailing toward a stylized townscape, a relief tradition Amsterdam builders used for centuries before house numbers existed to help people find addresses.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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