One of the important crafts was that of gold and silver smiths. This can be seen on several Gable stones. Although this house was known as the golden "covp" (meaning head), the depiction on the Gable stone is not a head but a golden chalice.
Bay windows were not yet used in 1673. It is possible that the bay window is new from 1880 when the facades in that row were moved/dismantled and renewed during the construction of the Percee. But it could also be from 1925, because then the facade was modernised and the stones ANNO and 1673 were donated to the museum. These year stones were reinstalled next to the Gable stone after years of being "in the museum", so someone must have had a good memory or at least an older photograph of this facade.
Presumably the date stones were originally placed at the edge of the facade, just like the neighbour at no. 60.
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