TABLES Table 16.1 Financial Profile of the Amsterdam Burgerweeshuis Inventories (asset and debt values in guilders)1 Panel a. Positive net worth—N Column percentage Median net worth Negative net worth— N Column percentage Median net worth No valuation—N Column percentage Median net worth Males 109 26.6% 69.4 guilders 251 Females 143 28.5% 77.8 guilders 276 Total 252 27.6% 76 guilders 527 61.2% -73.5 guilders 50 12.2% N/A 55.0% -42.7 guilders 83 16.5% N/A 57.7% -54 guilders 133 14.6% N/A Males 181 81.0 110.4 202 49.5 93.6 28 48.3 58.6 Females 97 90.0 124.3 346 31.0 54.5 59 67.3 57.3 Total 278 82.6 113.6 548 34.3 66.8 87 62.9 57.3 Panel b. Married—N Median assets Median debts Widow(er)—N Median assets Median debts Never Married—N Median assets Median debts Source: Gemeente Archief Amsterdam, particulier archief 367, oud archief 652–88 1 Those with incomplete inventories are the so-called per memorie records. Typically, the family information, location of the residence, the date of the bookkeeper’s visit, and the signatures of the relevant surviving family members were still recorded in the usual fashion. What is missing is the list of household belongings (presumably there were none) and the debts remaining to be paid (presumably there were more than enough of these). Column N Table 16.2 Characteristics of Native and Immigrant Households (column shares in percentages and values in guilders) Both Both Man Wife Unknow VOC/ A’dam immigrant A’dam A’dam n/NA seafarers 394 53 74 128 264 32 Hansa port origin 34 Assets < 15 guilders 15 – 200 guilders > 200 guilders 33.8 18.9 16.2 22.7 24.9 37.5 23.5 45.5 43.4 41.9 53.1 53.2 34.4 44.1 19.8 37.7 41.9 24.2 21.9 28.1 32.4 Evidence of shop 10.7 37.7 21.6 22.7 12.1 12.5 26.5 Number of rooms 1 62.6 40.6 51.0 59.7 57.7 69.2 59.1 2 17.2 25.0 20.4 10.4 11.7 7.7 13.6 3 3.0 12.5 12.2 7.8 7.2 7.7 13.6 4-12 7.2 21.9 14.3 13.0 9.9 2.1 13.6 10.1 0.0 2.0 9.1 13.5 15.4 0.0 180.3 407.6 282.8 213.6 232.1 193.8 183.6 40.5 93.5 87.3 60.5 56.0 69.0 63.5 336.6 584.5 393.4 596.7 220.8 378.7 305.0 71.8 193.3 108.5 103.3 67.7 62.4 136.2 Unknown Mean Assets Median Assets Mean Debts Median Debts Source: Gemeente Archief Amsterdam, particulier archief 367, oud archief 652–88 Table 16.3: Ownership Shares of Exotic (or imitative) Goods by Household Characteristics % with porcelain Full data N=914 % with tea&coffee % with delftware %with silk fabrics % w/chintz fabrics % w/cotton fabrics 37.6 58.5 54.0 22.6 14.6 23.3 Assets < 15 guil. N=250 4.8 8.0 12.5 0.0 0.4 2.8 15 – 200 guilders N=446 42.2 70.9 66.4 20.2 11.0 26.7 > 200 guilders N=216 65.6 90.8 76.2 53.2 38.1 39.9 VOC/seafarers N=32 25.0 43.8 43.8 12.5 6.3 28.1 Hansa port origin* N=34 44.1 67.7 55.9 17.7 8.8 26.5 Both A’dam N=394 38.3 30.9 53.1 18.0 13.4 20.8 Both Immigrant N=53 43.4 79.3 66.0 30.2 15.1 30.2 Man A’dam N=74 48.6 78.4 67.6 24.3 20.3 32.4 Wife A’dam N=128 39.1 64.1 61.7 23.4 16.4 28.9 Unknown/NA N=264 31.4 48.9 45.5 26.9 13.6 20.4 Wealth groups *Former Hansa towns from which individuals migrated: Bergen (2), Bremen (5), Copenhagen (2), Danzig (2), Emden (10), Gothenburg (2), Hamburg (4), Koburg (1), Koningsburg (1), Lubeck (1), Stettin (2), and Straalsond (1). Table 16.4 Quantity of Porcelain and Coffee and Tea Goods (as assessed for households with at least one of each item) N of households w/porcelain Full data set Mean pieces of porcelain Median pieces of porcelain N of households w/tea&coffee Mean pieces of tea&coffee Median pieces of tea&coffee 343 28.9 11 534 9.8 3 12 2.1 2 20 1.2 1 15 – 200 guil. 188 16.9 8 316 5.8 3 > 200 guilders 143 47.0 23 198 17.0 6 VOC/seafarers 8 14.8 2 14 5.2 3 Hansa port origin 15 17.2 12 23 10.3 5 Both A’dam 151 30.9 12 223 9.4 3 Both Immigrant 23 17.3 12 42 7.2 4 Man A’dam 36 17.3 9 58 5.9 2 Wife A’dam 50 25.4 11 82 5.9 2 Unknown/not married 83 35.6 10 129 11.7 3 Wealth groups Assets < 15 guil. Table 16.5 Asset Thresholds for Possession of Exotic (or imitative) Goods (all asset values in guilders) porcelain tea&coffee delftware silk chintz cotton VOC/seafarers lowest asset value **density value 29.0 29.0 29.0 29.0 7.0 7.0 313.2 313.2 107.5 only 2 total 31.9 122.5 16.0 16.0 Hansa port origin lowest asset value density asset value 26.7 122.5 14.5 14.5 13.0 13.0 64.5 154.0 273.8 only 3 total 62.5 237.0 14.5 14.5 Both A’dam lowest asset value density asset value 0.5 35.0 5.8 13.0 6.0 10.8 30.5 61.0 12.0 58.5 10.8 26.0 10.0 10.0 Both Immigrant lowest asset value density asset value 26.7 88.0 9.5 9.5 14.5 14.5 60.1 232.8 69.5 352.2 31.5 31.5 14.5 14.5 Man A’dam lowest asset value density asset value 14.5 120.0 14.0 22.0 13.0 13.0 107.5 257.5 95.0 243.0 14.5 32.0 13.0 13.0 Wife A’dam lowest asset value density asset value 3.5 72.0 16.0 29.2 9.5 9.5 49.5 112.5 48.5 98.4 25.0 58.5 14.0 22.8 Notes: * Lakens were the traditional woollen fabric characteristic of high quality, yet ordinary clothing for the Low Countries and the North German lands. ** The asset value at which ownership becomes ‘dense’ is measured separately for each item depending on the density of possession for that item in the total sample. For example, delftware is considered to have reached a density of ownership only when at least half of the households in the given sample possess at least one piece. By contrast, silk is considered to have achieved density when one-third of the households possess at least one item. *lakens