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A GOLD AND CORNELIAN REVOLVING FOB SEAL, with reeded mounts and scroll bracket, one side carved with a coat-of-arms, the other with a crest, circa 1800
2in. (5cm.) high
The arms are those of Hamilton, presumably for John James Hamilton, 9th Earl of Abercorn. Born in 1756, he succeded to the title in 1789 and died in 1818. This celebrated Earl, who was raised to the rank of Marquess in 1790, 'is stated to have always gone out shooting in his blue ribbon' [he was a Knight of the Garter] 'and to have required his housemaids to wear white kid gloves when they made his bed. It is also alleged that having learnt of his second wife's elopement, he sent her a message begging her to take the family coach, as it ought never to be said that Lady Abercorn left her husband's roof in a hack chaise' [G. E. Russell, Collections and Recollections, 1898]
2in. (5cm.) high
The arms are those of Hamilton, presumably for John James Hamilton, 9th Earl of Abercorn. Born in 1756, he succeded to the title in 1789 and died in 1818. This celebrated Earl, who was raised to the rank of Marquess in 1790, 'is stated to have always gone out shooting in his blue ribbon' [he was a Knight of the Garter] 'and to have required his housemaids to wear white kid gloves when they made his bed. It is also alleged that having learnt of his second wife's elopement, he sent her a message begging her to take the family coach, as it ought never to be said that Lady Abercorn left her husband's roof in a hack chaise' [G. E. Russell, Collections and Recollections, 1898]