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* Seal or stamp in silver, engraved Customs ("Douannes") National surrounding a monogram and a crown of leaves, 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.
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 ...
