EditorialBroker of F.A. Gluysteen, real estate agent in Amsterdam, The baluster-shaped, multi-profiled ebony stick has a wide and a narrow end, both encased in a cast silver cap. The caps have a straight, smooth wall and a slightly convex, slightly protruding t...
EditorialBroker from Hendrik Cannegieter, broker in Amsterdam, turned wooden stick, clad with silver on both ends, upper side: crowned coat of arms, flanked by two lions, on the side of the inscription, bottom: climbing lion within a leaf wreath, Amsterdam, Hen...
EditorialBroker of Jan Mooij, Black boxwood profiled broker with silver cachet on both sides, on the thick side with the crowned Amsterdam weapon worn by two lions, on the other side the letters MKLRSG surrounded by a pearl border. Marked: on the edge of the la...
EditorialBroker of Abraham Hofteyn, Black ebony profiled broker with silver cachet on both sides, on the thick side with the crowned Amsterdam weapon worn by two lions, on the other side the letters RMS surrounded by a pearl border. Marked: on the edge of the l...
EditorialBroker from 1828, Broker from ebony with a silver cachet on either side. On one side a lion in relief on the other a lion and creux. On the other side the date and the letters AVB, Amsterdam, weduwe H. de Groot, c. 1828, silver (metal), ebony (wood), h...
EditorialBroker of the Amsterdam real estate guild, Brown wooden stick with a silver cachet on one side. On the other hand, the corresponding cachet is missing. Dated: on the edge of the cachet: Ao. 1794. Marked: on the edge of the cachet: DLP. On the cachet in...
EditorialBroker of Willem Gideon Kleman Jr., broker in Amsterdam, Turned wooden stick, silver clad at both ends, upper side: crowned coat of arms, flanked by two lions, on the side of the inscription, bottom: monogram of letters M, K, R and S within pearl borde...
EditorialBOMBAY BROKERS AND TRADERS: A "Brokers' room" of an English merchant in Bombay. On the staff of each European firm is a broker, or clerk, acting in the same capacity, whose special business it is to show the goods to the Hindoo buyers, take their bids ...
EditorialAftermath of the Hungarian revolution. Meeting of the Dunapentele Works Council. The director remained in charge after the Revolution, but the Communist Party secretary, once a power-broker, disappeared and did not report back to the steelmill. Dun...
EditorialThe kasbah (fortress) of Telouet, Morocco. The powerful caids of the berber tribe of Glaoua built many kasbahs in the mountains south of Marrakesh. Telouet was the seat of Si Thami al-Glaoui (died 1956), a power-broker between the French and the sultan...