A commemorative "British colonization medal" struck by Charles I in 1670
Source:
http://www.vcoins.com/ancient/yorkcoins/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=1864&large=1
(downloaded Sept. 2006)
"ENGLAND, Charles I (1625-1649), British Colonization, 1670, Silver Medal, 47mm, by John Roettier, conjoined busts of Charles II and Catherine of Braganza (who brought Bombay in her dowry) right, he cuirassed, her draped, CAROLVS ET CATHARINA REX ET REGINA, rev., a globe, showing South America, the Eastern Seaboard of North America, Africa, Western Eurasia, India and the Southern Continent (Australia and Antarctica as one landmass), DIFFVSVS IN ORBE BRITANNVS 1670 (The Briton spread over the world)."
Two early London landmarks, in a copperplate engraving, 1776; *another version of the print, from 1805*
Source: ebay, Aug. 2005
A token from 1793, showing the East India Company's "bale mark" on the right face
"Britain: Lancashire, Manchester Halfpenny Condor Token, 1793, East India Company. Town arms of Manchester. (Note Griffins and little camel, top). "Manchester Promissory Halfpenny", "1793" in exergue / Bale mark of the East India Company. 'Payable At In. Fieldings Grocer And Tea Dealer'."
*India House, London: The Sale Room, 1808 (with an auction going on), an etching with watercolor by Thomas Rowlandson* (FAMSF); *a very large scan of this etching*
Lavish gifts of perfume prepared for the Emperor of China, as part of a bid for an enhanced trade relationship (Ackerman, 1816); *explanatory text*
Source: ebay, Feb. 2007
*View of East India House, an aquatint by Joseph Hosmer Shepherd, 1817* (BL)
*"The East India House," by J. Greig, 1817*; also: *"West India Import Dock," by I. C. Varrall, 1817*
Source: ebay, Jan. 2007
Uniforms of the East India Service, c. 1820: Captain and First Officer
Source: ebay, Dec. 2001
*East India House, in a French engraving, 1844*; also, *East India Company docks*
Source: ebay, Apr. 2007
"Unloading tea-ships in the East India docks," from the Illustrated London News, 1867
Source: ebay, Apr. 2007
*A map of the East India dock area in London, 1888*
Source: ebay, Feb. 2007
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