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Very nice little seal or stamp * Sterling silver, adorned with a monogram, stamped boar's head, round agate, of XIXth century.
This seal is in good condition.
A note: the silver part is a little bent, some scratches and wear on the agate (red arrow), see photos.
* Stamp: collectible whose earliest examples date back four thousand years before our era. The stamp was first used to affix the personal brand of a character to ensure the contents of a box or an envelope, the authenticity of a document. Moreover, as the term was used seal. The little personal touch is indeed used in Europe since the Middle Ages. This may be a rise of a hard stone Intaglio ring or gold kitten engraved hollow (the signet is not anything else!). But there are many more-fitted seals, made of a hard stone engraved intaglio: carnelian, garnet, sapphire, rock crystal, agate, some are even ancient intaglios. These little pills are sometimes jewelry that is hung on a chain or chatelaine, such as boxes, it is often a gift object. These fees vary in size: we find tiny embedded on pretty of chased gold mounts, some 1.5 to 2 cm in diameter mounted on a handful of gold, dressed up, chased silver, of shell, hard stone, wood ...
