Joint-stock company
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A joint-stock company is a business entity in which shares of the company's stock can be bought and sold by shareholders. Each shareholder owns company stock in proportion, evidenced by their shares.
The transfer letter from 1288 through which Bishop Peter of Västerås reacquires an eighth of Tiskasjöberg, Kopparberget. The original can be found at Riksarkivet (National Archive) in Stockholm.
One of the oldest known stock certificates, issued by the VOC chamber of Enkhuizen, dated 9 Sep 1606
Dutch East India Company
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The United East India Company, commonly known as the Dutch East India Company, was a chartered trading company and one of the first joint-stock companies in the world. Established on 20 March 1602 by
Joint-stock company
…granted the newly formed Honourable East India Company a fifteen-year monopoly on all English trade in the East Indies. Soon afterwards, in 1602, the Dutch East India Company issued shares that were made tradable on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. The development enhanced the ability of joint-stock companies to attract capital…
The United East India Company was the brainchild of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, the leading statesman of the Dutch Republic.
The stock exchange of Hendrick de Keyser
![A 17th-century plaque to the [Dutch] United East India Company, the VOC, in Hoorn](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/17th_century_plaque_to_Dutch_East_India_Company_%28VOC%29%2C_Hoorn.jpg/500px-17th_century_plaque_to_Dutch_East_India_Company_%28VOC%29%2C_Hoorn.jpg)
A 17th-century plaque to the [Dutch] United East India Company, the VOC, in Hoorn
The return of the second Asia expedition of Jacob van Neck in 1599 by Cornelis Vroom