Nangking Cargo
 

A very special oyster. Painted on the biggest oysters we have. The Nanking Cargo oysters are nicely packaged in a wooden oysterbasket. Enclosed a booklet with the story of the Nanking Cargo, a nautical map from the period of the Dutch east India Company (VOC) and the original certificate with seriel number of the Nanking Cargo oyster itself.  

7th century VOC map of the Chinese Sea and Coast, the northern islands of  of Sumatra, westwards of Borneo, where the trading ship 'De Geldermalsen', that set sail from Zeeland, sank in 1752.​