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Seal or stamp * bronze gravéJ.Potthof Notary, Court peace Creuznach (Rhine and Moselle *), period Directoire- Empire late eighteenth-nineteenth centuries.
This seal is in good condition. It has no handle.
A note: dirt, light bumps and wear time on the seal, see photos.
* The Rhine and Moselle is a former French department of the left bank of the Rhine, named locally Rhein-Mosel-und. The Cisrhénanie (mosaic of dozens of states, members of the Holy Roman Empire) was divided November 4, 1797 by the Management Board into four departments, the Roer, Saar, Rhine and Moselle and Mont-Tonnerre, who were held on January 23, 1798. These departments were officially integrated into the French territory 9 March 1801 and existed until the dismantling of the Empire in 1814.
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 ...
