A GEORGE IV OBLONG GOLD FOB-SEAL with chased scrolling bracket handle, flower and foliage rims and fluted back, the citrine seal engraved with a coat-of-arms, ducal coronet, crest and motto 'Aequo animo', on chased gold flower split ring; a vari-coloured gold oblong fob-seal, the mount and urn-shaped handle chased with green gold foliage on a matted yellow gold ground, the cornelian seal engraved with a coat-of-arms, on chased gold flower and foliage split ring, and an octagonal gold fob-seal with panels of chased and engraved ornament around the sides, the tapering open handle formed as a serpent coiled around a lyre, with plain foiled crystal base, all circa 1830 (3)

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A GEORGE IV OBLONG GOLD FOB-SEAL with chased scrolling bracket handle, flower and foliage rims and fluted back, the citrine seal engraved with a coat-of-arms, ducal coronet, crest and motto 'Aequo animo', on chased gold flower split ring; a vari-coloured gold oblong fob-seal, the mount and urn-shaped handle chased with green gold foliage on a matted yellow gold ground, the cornelian seal engraved with a coat-of-arms, on chased gold flower and foliage split ring, and an octagonal gold fob-seal with panels of chased and engraved ornament around the sides, the tapering open handle formed as a serpent coiled around a lyre, with plain foiled crystal base, all circa 1830 (3)

Lot Essay

INDENTThe arms on the second seal are those of Day with another in pretence. These arms were granted on 23 May, 1810 to Samuel Shurray Day Esq of Burnett House, Hinton and Charterhouse, Somerset and of Broughton and Westwood, Wiltshire, only son and heir of Samuel Day Esq. The version above were borne by the widow of a male descendant of Samuel Shurray Day

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