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Seal wood metal silver crown seal shield seal coat comtale nineteenth

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E60 422

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375,00 €

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Seal or stamp * silver or silver metal with the coat of arms with a shield Vace ears of wheat, a chevron topped with a coronet, blackened wooden handle, XIXth century.

This seal is in good condition. No punch.

A note: wear time, see photos.

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* Stamp: collector's item, the oldest specimens date back four millennia BC. The seal was first used for affixing the personal stamp of 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. This may be a ring mounted to a hard stone intaglio, or a gold bezel engraved hollow (the signet rings are something else!). But many more are-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 lady; such as boxes, it is often a gift item. These fees vary in size: it is tiny in embedded on pretty mounts chased gold, other 1.5 to 2cm in diameter mounted on a handful of gold, of primping, chased silver, nacre, hard stone, wood ...

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  • Dimensions sceau 2 cm x 2,3 cm
  • Longueur 7,5 cm