File:Mandsaur Opium Agency Wellcome L0064753.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(3,874 × 6,410 pixels, file size: 7.39 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary[edit]

Mandsaur Opium Agency
Title
Mandsaur Opium Agency
Description

Mandsaur Opium Agency

Hundi (or trade voucher) for an amount of opium (in this instance 27 cheets), dated 9 April 1903. A type of bill of exchange raised by an Indian merchant to finance trade. The Mandsaur Opium Agency certified the value of the farmer's opium crop, the hundi was sold to the Bank of Bombay who would have been reimbured in due course upon sale of the opium. It has an engraved duty stamp of 3 rupees and the profile of Edward VII in purple.

General Collections
Keywords: Opium
Credit line

This file comes from Wellcome Images, a website operated by Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation based in the United Kingdom. Refer to Wellcome blog post (archive).
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.

References
Source/Photographer

https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/4d/92/7aa12e028fa6613994a4db3177e1.jpg

Other versions

Licensing[edit]

w:en:Creative Commons
attribution
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current23:57, 18 October 2014Thumbnail for version as of 23:57, 18 October 20143,874 × 6,410 (7.39 MB)Fæ (talk | contribs)=={{int:filedesc}}== {{Artwork |artist = |author = |title = Mandsaur Opium Agency |description = Mandsaur Opium Agency Hundi (or trade voucher) for an amount of opium (in this instance 27 cheets), dated 9 Ap...

You cannot overwrite this file.

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Mandsaur_Opium_Agency_Wellcome_L0064753.jpg&oldid=473905653"