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FIVE VARIOUS DESK SEALS AND A PORTRAIT BUST
Comprising:
Two seals with baluster ivory handles, one with gilt matrix, the other with bloodstone matrix, each engraved with accolé arms; another brass example, cast as figure of an office of the Grenedier guards, the matrix engraved with an 'E' cypher below a Royal crown; another with a carved composition handle, the matix cut with initials 'RS' below a demi-lion rampant crest and another silver-casted amethyst quartz example cut with a facsimile inscription;
The bust depicting Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763-1827), the back engraved 'Published by T. Hamlet 16 Augt 1823'
The arms on the two baluster handled seals are those of Schelswig-Holstein accolé with the Royal Arms of Great Britain with Saxony in pretence, for Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (1831-1917) and his wiife Princess Helena (1846-1923), 3rd daughter of Queen Victoria, whom he married in 1866.
The cypher on the guardsman seal is for Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (1864-1892). (6)
Comprising:
Two seals with baluster ivory handles, one with gilt matrix, the other with bloodstone matrix, each engraved with accolé arms; another brass example, cast as figure of an office of the Grenedier guards, the matrix engraved with an 'E' cypher below a Royal crown; another with a carved composition handle, the matix cut with initials 'RS' below a demi-lion rampant crest and another silver-casted amethyst quartz example cut with a facsimile inscription;
The bust depicting Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763-1827), the back engraved 'Published by T. Hamlet 16 Aug
The arms on the two baluster handled seals are those of Schelswig-Holstein accolé with the Royal Arms of Great Britain with Saxony in pretence, for Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (1831-1917) and his wiife Princess Helena (1846-1923), 3rd daughter of Queen Victoria, whom he married in 1866.
The cypher on the guardsman seal is for Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (1864-1892). (6)
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