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Seal or stamp * silver metal engraved initials AB, handle carved ebony, XIXth century.
This seal is in good condition.
A note: it had to be glued between the handle and seal wear time, see photos.
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* Stamp: collector's item, the oldest specimens date back four millennia BC. The seal was first used for affixing the personal stamp of 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. This may be a ring mounted to a hard stone intaglio, or a gold bezel engraved hollow (the signet rings are something else!). But many more are-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 lady; such as boxes, it is often a gift item. These fees vary in size: it is tiny in embedded on pretty mounts chased gold, other 1.5 to 2cm in diameter mounted on a handful of gold, of primping, chased silver, nacre, hard stone, wood ...
