Bronze seal stamp Justice Peace Canton Pontrieux Côtes du Nord eagle 19th century
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Bronze seal or stamp*, engraved "Justice of the Peace of the Canton of Pontrieux- Côtes du Nord", with a crowned eagle, blackened wooden handle, from the 19th century.
This seal is in good general condition, in its original condition.
Please note: dirt, small impacts and wear and tear on the seal and handle, see photos.
Collectible object whose oldest examples date back to four millennia before our era. The seal was first used to affix the personal mark of a person to guarantee the contents of a box or an envelope, the authenticity of a document. The term seal was also used. The small personal seal 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 (signet rings are nothing else!). But more numerous are the seals with handles, formed from a hard stone engraved in intaglio: carnelian, garnet, sapphire, rock crystal, agate; some are even antique intaglios. These small seals are sometimes jewels that are hung from a chain or the chatelaine; like boxes, they are often a gift object. These seals are of varying sizes: we find tiny ones set on pretty chiseled gold mounts, others of 1.5 to 2 cm in diameter mounted on a handle of gold, pomponne, chiseled silver, mother-of-pearl, hard stone, wood...