Wheelbarrow with which work was begun on the North Sea Canal

Roughly built wooden wheelbarrow with a wooden wheel surrounded by an iron band. The box is boarded up at the top. Decorated on the sides with pine branches and silk ribbons, fixed with copper-headed nails; on the front and the wheel silk ribbons and gold thread; only remnants of all these decorations remain. Inscription: on a cardboard label of the Rijksmuseum: The wheelbarrow and the spade, with which on March 8, 1865, the excavation work for the North Sea Canal began. See.