18th Century VOC Dutch East India Company Bell Rare Marked 1602
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:58360220 | Material: Bronze |
| Type: Nautical | Original/Reproduction: Antique Original |
18th Century VOC Dutch East India Company Bell Marked 1602
Very important historical artifact. The Dutch East India VOC Company was the first and greatest trading corporation in the history of the World.
Perfect gift for international trade executive, Wall Street big hitter or anyone who appreciates the history of capitalism.
2 original hand forged iron links (rare).
Condition: Very good, no issues. Green tints is the copper alloy which has oxidized. ...
Antique bronze nautical bell decorated with coat of arms of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the date of 1602.
Bells were used to communicate the time to the captain and crew starting at high noon (no shadow). Then with the use of a 1/2 hour glass in 30 minute intervals. Time was pegged on a tally board. Longitude and latitude were determined mathematically at sunrise and sunset vs. the ships time.
Probably cast in Batavia. ORIGIN: Batavia. (Present day Jakarta, Indonesia)
Size: 16 inches in height, (excluding hanging rings) 12 inches in diameter.
Weight: Approximately 25 pounds.
The Dutch East India Company, officially the United East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie; VOC; Indonesian: Kompeni), was a megacorporation founded by a government-directed amalgamation of several rival Dutch trading companies (voorcompagnieën) in the early 17th century.
It was established on 20 March 1602, as a chartered company to trade with Mughal India in the early modern period, from which 50% of textiles and 80% of silks were imported, chiefly from its most developed region known as Bengal Subah. In addition, the company traded with Indianised Southeast Asian countries when the Dutch government granted it a 21-year monopoly on the Dutch spice trade.
The company has been often labelled a trading company (i.e. a company of merchants who buy and sell goods produced by other people) or sometimes a shipping company. However, the VOC was in fact an early-modern corporate model of vertically integrated global supply chain and a proto-conglomerate, diversifying into multiple commercial and industrial activities such as international trade (especially intra-Asian trade), shipbuilding, and both production and trade of East Indian spices,
Indonesian coffee, Formosan sugarcane, and South African wine. The company was a transcontinental employer and a corporate pioneer of outward foreign direct investment at the dawn of modern capitalism. In the early 1600s, by widely issuing bonds and shares of stock to the general public, VOC became the world's first formally listed public company.
The English version of the East India Company was the ship that held the Tea of the fame Boston Tea Party for which Sons of Liberty vandalized because the East India Tea Company undercut tea prices which devastated the New England local trade in tea.
Similar to the VOC Bell featured on Pawn Stars and valued at $15, 000. Link to youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiIHvQovKkk&t=14s
$75 US flat rate shipping.
Very important historical artifact. The Dutch East India VOC Company was the first and greatest trading corporation in the history of the World.
Perfect gift for international trade executive, Wall Street big hitter or anyone who appreciates the history of capitalism.
2 original hand forged iron links (rare).
Condition: Very good, no issues. Green tints is the copper alloy which has oxidized. ...
Antique bronze nautical bell decorated with coat of arms of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the date of 1602.
Bells were used to communicate the time to the captain and crew starting at high noon (no shadow). Then with the use of a 1/2 hour glass in 30 minute intervals. Time was pegged on a tally board. Longitude and latitude were determined mathematically at sunrise and sunset vs. the ships time.
Probably cast in Batavia. ORIGIN: Batavia. (Present day Jakarta, Indonesia)
Size: 16 inches in height, (excluding hanging rings) 12 inches in diameter.
Weight: Approximately 25 pounds.
The Dutch East India Company, officially the United East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie; VOC; Indonesian: Kompeni), was a megacorporation founded by a government-directed amalgamation of several rival Dutch trading companies (voorcompagnieën) in the early 17th century.
It was established on 20 March 1602, as a chartered company to trade with Mughal India in the early modern period, from which 50% of textiles and 80% of silks were imported, chiefly from its most developed region known as Bengal Subah. In addition, the company traded with Indianised Southeast Asian countries when the Dutch government granted it a 21-year monopoly on the Dutch spice trade.
The company has been often labelled a trading company (i.e. a company of merchants who buy and sell goods produced by other people) or sometimes a shipping company. However, the VOC was in fact an early-modern corporate model of vertically integrated global supply chain and a proto-conglomerate, diversifying into multiple commercial and industrial activities such as international trade (especially intra-Asian trade), shipbuilding, and both production and trade of East Indian spices,
Indonesian coffee, Formosan sugarcane, and South African wine. The company was a transcontinental employer and a corporate pioneer of outward foreign direct investment at the dawn of modern capitalism. In the early 1600s, by widely issuing bonds and shares of stock to the general public, VOC became the world's first formally listed public company.
The English version of the East India Company was the ship that held the Tea of the fame Boston Tea Party for which Sons of Liberty vandalized because the East India Tea Company undercut tea prices which devastated the New England local trade in tea.
Similar to the VOC Bell featured on Pawn Stars and valued at $15, 000. Link to youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiIHvQovKkk&t=14s
$75 US flat rate shipping.
