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Seal or stamp in solid silver finely chiseled foliage pattern, presenting a monogram, carved bone handle (ox), XIXth century.
This seal is in good condition. Boar's head hallmark.
A note: the money will have to be re-cleaned, the handle is a little dirty and yellowed, wear of time, see photos.
Collector's item, the oldest examples of which date from four millennia before our era. The stamp was first used to affix the personal mark of a character to guarantee the contents of a box or an envelope, the authenticity of a document. The term seal was also used. The small personal stamp has in fact been used in Europe since the Middle Ages. It can be a ring mounted with a hard stone intaglio, or a gold bezel engraved in hollow (the signet rings are nothing else!). But more numerous are the handles fitted, formed of a hard stone engraved in intaglio: carnelian, garnet, sapphire, rock crystal, agate; some are even ancient intaglios. These small stamps are sometimes jewels that one hangs from a chain or from the chatelaine; like boxes, it is often a gift item. These seals vary in size: we find tiny ones set on pretty chiseled gold mounts, others 1.5 to 2cm in diameter mounted on a handle of gold, pomponne, chiseled silver, mother-of-pearl, hard stone, wood ...
