Confrairie des marchands de vin

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Vessel from left, above the Holy Spirit in the midst of vine branches. Note: VNSE has Z backward and should be VNZE

Script: Latin

Lettering:
MIL · SIX · CENS · QVATRE · VINGT · VNSE ·
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Translation:
Thousand six hundred four twenty eleven
= 1,000 + 600 + 80 + 11 = 1691

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Comment

Corporations ~ In Rome, groups of artisans existed: forming a college placed under the protection of a deity, with a house and a common fund. In medieval Europe, probably from the religious brotherhoods were formed economic groupings of merchants called Hanse or Ghilde. With the development of trade, craftsmen organized themselves into the body or business communities that grouped all that did the same profession: masters, journeymen or apprentices. To enter the body, it was necessary "to swear" the trade. Besides, there existed free trades that could be enjoyed by all. Each body was run by a collective leadership in charge of enforcing the rules of the trade, protect the business from the competition and lead the fraternal benefit society. At the end of the seventeenth century, the King began to sell as hereditary offices functions jurors and serious corporation; which provoked financial difficulties of trustees, at a time when corporations do even more than met the new requirements of economic development Industry and corporate concentration. This is also in England that corporations disappeared spontaneously because of the industrial revolution. The corporations were abolished in France in 1791 by the Constituent Assembly.