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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 151487, member: 25&quot;]Many Dutch merchants would be rich enough to afford such things. Also the Dutch have a long tradition of republicanism making nobility not such as big deal as the English and French made it.</p><p>Although mounted on a field carriage, could a few of these have adorned some merchant ship on naval carriages, they&#039;d not be much cop in a battle but they&#039;d scare of weakly armed pirates, I imagine.</p><p><br /></p><p>The I in the initials is probably a J.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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