Brazil 1773 - Diamond Administration of Tejuco, 6 Octavas Gold Receipt No. 813 (Pick Unlisted)
The form records the release of “seis outavas de ouro” (six octavas of gold), a denomination tied directly to Portuguese metrological standards of the 18th century. Every transaction in the diamond zone was logged under strict royal oversight, and very few printed instruments survived the destruction protocols imposed during later 18th- and early 19th-century reforms. The vast majority of known diamond-district documents are purely handwritten; printed forms of this type are exponentially rarer. Read more →