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The apprentices, providing evidence of self-consciousness, pride and encour-
agement, it would appear, liked the use of poems.
Figure 44
A 1660 masterpiece,
De Waag, Amsterdam,
which reveals the high
quality of gauged work
in the Netherlands from
the second quarter of
the seventeenth century.
These masterpieces were all worked from full-size orange/red bricks that
had been deliberately worked to a much smaller scale laid with a mortar of
lime putty with some silver sand. Measurements taken from some of the mas-
terpieces averaged:
Stretcher - 148 mm
Header - 74 mm
Gauge - 25 mm
Bed joints - 1 mm
6 course gauge - 216 mm
On many of these gauged masterpieces the bed joints that average 1mm
with perpends averaging 0.5mm, many of the latter were seen to have been
achieved by the use of a 'dummy', or false, joint scored on the face of an
appropriate full, or three-quarter, stretcher. All of the gauged brickwork
