Abstract
This research note presents a defence of the Sound Toll Tables (STT) published by Nina Ellinger Bang and Knud Korst. It is argued that the nature of the information available in the STT with respect to Baltic timber products has been misunderstood by historians. It is shown that it is possible to study the export of individual timber products from the Baltic from 1669 to 1783 on the basis of the STT. The note also demonstrates that the STT can be employed to examine individual ships and their cargoes in a very limited number of cases.
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