Last modified: 2002-02-07 by antonio martins
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![[Casa da Guiné]](../images/p/pt_cgne.gif)
The trading Guinea Company used a white flag with a big green potent cross.
This company was a governative institution which had the task to look after the
unloading, expecially of spices, to draw the king part and to fix the prices of the
goods. Its name was: "Casa da Guiné", "Casa da Guiné e Mina" in
1482-83, "Casa da Índia e da Guiné" in 1499.
Mario Fabretto, 30 May 1997
![[Company of Grão Pará and Maranhão]](../images/p/pt_cgpm.gif)
The Company of Grão Pará and Maranhão, in the second half of the 18th century,
used a white flag with, toward the hoist, a big yellow seven-pointed star with the
figure of Saint Anthony holding Infant Jesus. Under the star the motto
"UT LUCET OMNIBUS".
Mario Fabretto, 30 May 1997
![[Company of Pernambuco and Paraiba]](../images/p/pt_cpp.gif)
The Company of Pernambuco and Paraíba used in the second half of the 18th century
a similar flag to that of the the Company of Grão Pará and Maranhão having, under the
star, a light blue anchor, and over it the image of the Immaculate Conception, patron
of Portugal.
Mario Fabretto, 30 May 1997
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