Leo

Here we see a six-sided coat of arms, in which there is a lion rampant to the left, the whole surrounded by a wreath of foliage. Of all the animals, the lion and especially the rampant lion as seen here was the most common on heraldic arms of dozens of countries. In 1953, at the request of A. Minis, the city council of Maastricht bought it from antique dealer Geveke in Amsterdam.
Why is not entirely clear.
It is almost certainly not a Gable stone either, but some kind of ornament, and its origin is unknown.

Before 1807 Gisbert Barthelemi van Gulpen was the owner of this property. He himself lived at this address with his family and was a printer by profession. In 1812 he died in Cologne. The land register mentions that in 1807 Paulus Cornelis Dewaal became the new owner. He died in 1840, and in 1843 his widow sold the house to their daughter Maria Joanna Dewaal, married to Stephanus Creutz, a retired captain. At the time of the sale in 1843 other properties in Maastricht and pieces of land located in Oud-Vroenhoven and Lanaken were also sold. The family did not live there themselves as an advertisement from 1841 shows:

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House number 1664 was the old house number of Markt 30 in the 19th century, from 1806 to 1850. At that time the building was called: Cafe de la Renaissance.

In 1861 Andreas Josephus Hubertus Vogels gained possession of the property. He was an innkeeper and rebuilt the building in 1864. Andreas's last occupation is listed as coffee house keeper. When he died in 1890, the property went to his children Balthazar and Maria Hubertina. It is striking that the street name in the land register from 1889 is no longer Groote Markt, but Vischmarkt. In 1923 this changed back again to Grote Markt.

In 1894 the property was sold to Nicolaas Hubertus Jacobus Gilissen. He was a former infantry officer and later a brewer. He involved his son, who was also a brewer. He was the brother-in-law of Louis Marres, the son of Michel Marres, a very well-known brewer at the O.L.V. square. Louis Marres started the Marres-Gilissen brewery on the Markt on the corner of the Heilige Geeststraat in 1873, which was discontinued in 1915.

In 1923 the property was sold to Paul Rutten, a brewer and industrialist from Gulpen and a member of the Gulpener Bierbrouwerij family. They remained the owners until 1981, when another brewery took over the premises. From 1894 onwards, therefore, the property has been owned by brewers.