Lot Essay
INDENTFor the second message using devices cf. A Catalogue of that part of Mr William Tassie's Extensive Collection of Impressions from Engraved Gems, consisting of Devices and Emblems with Mottos in Various Languages made in composition for Seals at 20 Leicester Square (1830) no.205. William Tassie (b.1777), nephew and heir to James Tassie, inherited his uncle's collection of gem reproductions including a number of mottoes and devices for seals to which he added greatly (see J.M. Gray, James and William Tassie (1974) p.51