Talk:Royal Barcelona Board of Trade

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Is this not the same thing as the Barcelona Trading Company?

I can't tell if there's a difference between this Board and the Barcelona Trading Company. Can anyone provide a distinction if any? SparklingSnail (talk) 20:29, 31 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Good question. The Barcelona Tading Company was a shipping company that organised ships to sail to the Atlantic etc. The Junta was an educational body and covered training in navigation, drawing, accounting to support trading like the Barcelona Trading Company but many other industries as well. For example it was instrumental in the development of drawing skills that supported the first stage of the cotton industry, a page about which is in my sandbox and will soon be published. It outlasted the Barcelona Trading Company by decades and lives on to this day incarnate in the various technical schools and the modern Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Navigation. Peter Brew (talk) 07:00, 2 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]