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Very nice seal or stamp * crystal and gilt bronze foliage and berries decor, vintage Art Nouveau late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
This seal is in good condition. It is blank (without shield, monogram, or arms).
A note: micro-scratches and micro-chips, tiny time wear, see photos.
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* Stamp: collectible copies, the oldest dating back four millennia BCE. The stamp was first used to affix the mark of a personal 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 may be a ring mounted with an intaglio of hard stone, or a gold bezel engraved hollow (the signet rings are something else!). But there are many-fitted seals, made of a hard stone engraved intaglio: carnelian, garnet, sapphire, rock crystal, agate; some are even antique intaglios. These little pills are sometimes jewelery 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 in tiny embedded in pretty frames of chased gold, other 1.5 to 2cm in diameter mounted on a handful of gold, of primping, chased silver, pearl, hard stone, wood ...
