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Bronze Seal stamp Justice of Peace Saint-Claud Charente Charter 1830 seal XIX

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E60 294

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116,00 €

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145,00 €

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Seal or stamp * bronze, engraved "Justice of the Peace in Saint-Claud - Charente" 1830 Charter of XIXth century.

This seal is in good condition. It has no handle.

A note: dirt, shock and wear tiny little time on the seal, see photos.

We offer for sale a large number of seals from the same collection on this site.

* Stamp:

Collection object whose oldest examples date back four millennia BC. The seal was first used for affixing the personal stamp of a character to ensure the contents of a box or envelope, the authenticity of a document. It also also used the term seal. The little personal touch is indeed used in Europe since the Middle Ages. It can be an intaglio ring mounted in a hard stone, or a gold kitten engraved hollow (the signet rings are something 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 dangling from a chain or the chatelaine; such as boxes, it is often a gift item. These fees vary in size: one is in the tiny embedded in beautiful frames of chased gold, other 1.5 to 2cm in diameter mounted on a handful of gold, of primping, chased silver, nacre, hard stone, wood ...

Data sheet

  • Diamètre 2,8 cm / trou manche 1,6 cm
  • Longueur 2,2 cm