SUPERB Antique DUTCH East India Company V.O.C. GIN BOTTLE Circda 1600 - 1800

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SUPERB Antique DUTCH East India Company V.O.C. GIN BOTTLE Circda 1600 - 1800 :
$475.00

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DUTCH Bottle (Gin bottle ?) POSSIBLY from EARLIEST New Amsterdam HISTORY before NY was known as New YORK

Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie VOC

Sorry no known provenance on this BOTTLE (NO known history) but clearly one of the FEW SEEN that did NOT emanate from a SHIPWRECK

Came from the SAME PLACE as the NICE V.O.C. COIN that I have presently listed (IE purchased by me in United States of America) SEEN in last image but NOT INCLUDED

There is a small **impact mark** on the top right side of the front panel (SHOWN greatly enlarged in image # 10)

The NECK moves independently indicating that it is BROKEN and retained by the hemp binding otherwise NEAR PERFECTLY PRESERVED antique bottle is CONTAINED within an OLD ORIGINAL Plaited carry strap suspension.

I have NEVER SEEN another example that RETAINED this (Hemp ?) suspension.

I would guess that MANY (most ?) of these ancient bottles would be sourced from SHIPWRECKS ?

So their suspender would have LONG AGO rotted into the ocean.

The GREATLY ENLARGED photographs ARE the most significant part of my condition description.

Please view the images carefully and assure yourself what state this OLD antique VOC Bottle is in.

The United East Indian Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie; VOC), referred to by the British as the Dutch East India Company, was originally established as a chartered company in 1602, when the Dutch government granted it a 21-year monopoly on Dutch spice trade. It is often considered to have been the first multinational corporation in the world and it was the first company to issue stock.

It was a powerful company, possessing quasi-governmental powers, including the ability to wage war, imprison and execute convicts, negotiate treaties, strike its own coins, and establish colonies.

Statistically, the VOC eclipsed all of its rivals in the Asia trade.

Between 1602 and 1796 the VOC sent almost a million Europeans to work in the Asia trade on 4,785 ships, and netted for their efforts more than 2.5 million tons of Asian trade goods.

By contrast, the rest of Europe combined sent only 882,412 people from 1500 to 1795, and the fleet of the English (later British) East India Company, the VOC\'s nearest competitor, was a distant second to its total traffic with 2,690 ships and a mere one-fifth the tonnage of goods carried by the VOC.

The VOC enjoyed huge profits from its spice monopoly through most of the 17th century.

Having been set up in 1602, to profit from the Malukan spice trade, in 1619 the VOC established a capital in the port city of Jayakarta and changed the city name into Batavia (now Jakarta).

Over the next two centuries the Company acquired additional ports as trading bases and safeguarded their interests by taking over surrounding territory. It remained an important trading concern and paid an 18% annual dividend for almost 200 years.

Weighed down by corruption in the late 18th century, the Company went bankrupt and was formally dissolved in 1800, its possessions and the debt being taken over by the government of the Dutch Batavian Republic.

The VOC\'s territories became the Dutch East Indies and were expanded over the course of the 19th century to include the whole of the Indonesian archipelago, and in the 20th century would form the Republic of Indonesia.

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