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A.H. Wappäus

A.H. Wappäus used a yellow flag with a red saltire and a white central roundel containing a red cross, described in the FOTW account as Hanseatic. Rosanoski says that Schneider’s W467 makes the cross too small; the Mathies and Meyer illustrations, retained as W468 evidence, show the intended larger proportions.

His son Adolph Heinrich, also written Hinrich, returned to Hamburg after time in the USA and Venezuela, including partnership in Blohm & Co. at Ciudad Bolivar. In 1857 he founded an import-export and shipping business trading with the former Great Colombia and Guayana. Starting with three ships, it grew after the 1870–1871 war and reached twelve sailing ships in 1883, trading on the Orinoco into inland Venezuela. The final two ships were sold after his death in 1904.

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