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India / British India East India Company East‑India Stock London £3600 1817 - Dated 7 October 1817, this official East India Stock transfer receipt documents the registration of £3,600 in capital of the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies (British East India Company). By 1817, the East India Company stood at the apex of its power — functioning not merely as a trading entity, but as a quasi-sovereign corporate empire controlling vast territories in India, maintaining private armies, and forming a core pillar of British imperial finance. East India Stock was among the most important investment vehicles of early 19th-century Britain. Ownership was recorded formally in the Company’s books, and transfers such as this represented participation in one of the most powerful corporate structures in global history.