Register of all officers of the Swedish East India Company who sailed between 1731 and 1805, with life history and family relations. The result is also intended to be used as a key to identify personal monograms on Chinese imported porcelain. There is currently no similar reference work for researchers, collectors, antique dealers and the public interested in history. The collection work itself has been going on for 25 years, through museum and archive studies. The National Archives in Gothenburg have been the main source of knowledge in this work, but the collections of the current Gothenburg City Museum have also been important for the acquisition of knowledge.