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Intec Gaper from the private collection. This is Gaper number 41 from the series of a total of 41 gapers by the company Intec.
This is the last gaper made and the only one of plastic. Collector's item.

Only drugstores and pharmacists with sufficient sales received these unique, hand-painted gapers. The molds were ultimately destroyed in front of the guests at a farewell party for the company.

Gapers were recognition signs for pharmacies, chemists, and drugstores. The Gapers first appeared at the end of the sixteenth century and are only found in the Dutch, Frisian, and Flemish language areas. Most Gapers still used today as recognition signs date from the nineteenth century or are replicas.