The first stock exchange by architect Hendrick de Keyser opened its doors in Amsterdam in 1611 on an enormous arch over the canal ‘Rokin’. Not long after the first company share was invented by the Dutch East India company. Demolished 1884.

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1. Remseey2907 says

   The first company share commissioned in 1606:

   Album of old pictures and paintings of the building:

   The trade spirit and concept of stock exchange was taken to the colony of New Amsterdam. Present day New York:

2. Kitarn says

   Not sure where you got the 1884 date from. The building was torn down in 1836-37. The stock exchange which replaced it in 1845 was in turn demolished in 1903.

3. hunik6 says

   I thought the first stock exchange was ‘Ter Beurze’ in Bruges ? Somewhere in the 1300’s

4. DrippingNostalgia says

   This is not the first stock exchange. Ter Ouder Buerse in Bruges was the first stock exchange, originally exploited as an inn by the Van Der Buersen family, it became the first stock exchange in the world. It was very succesfull because of the presence of all kinds of traders and bankers of the international community in Bruges during the Middle Ages, as it was along with Ghent the biggest city above the Alps.

   (https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oude_Beursplein)

5. thepioneeringlemming says

   why was it demolished?

6. GoHomeWithBonnieJean says

   Ah, yes, the Dutch East India Company; the Devil incarnate. Invented stock shares, did they? Lovely.

7. maxmaidment says

   What are those black marks in the cloud on the right side? There are clear birds above, but these are much bolder and not bird like. They look like planes or something.