East India Company ensign (flag)
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From Royal Greenwich Museums website:
A copy made from a design supplied by Sir William Foster (ca.1911), who was registrar and superintendent of the India Office Records. The ensign is made of wool bunting, machine sewn with a linen hoist. A rope and wooden toggle is attached.
About the East India Company (from Wikipedia)
The East India Company (EIC)[a] was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874.[3] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia), and later with East Asia. The company gained control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent and Hong Kong. At its peak, the company was the largest corporation in the world by various measures and had its own armed forces in the form of the company's three presidency armies, totalling about 260,000 soldiers, twice the size of the British Army at certain times.[4]
