Lot 325
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A LARGE AND IMPRESSIVE OCTAGONAL GOLD FOB-SEAL with handle formed as a vulture with outstretched wings, a suspension ring in its beak, the sloping sides to the mount chased with panels of foliage scrolls and quatrefoils, the citrine seal engraved with a coat-of-arms, crest and motto, circa 1800

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A LARGE AND IMPRESSIVE OCTAGONAL GOLD FOB-SEAL with handle formed as a vulture with outstretched wings, a suspension ring in its beak, the sloping sides to the mount chased with panels of foliage scrolls and quatrefoils, the citrine seal engraved with a coat-of-arms, crest and motto, circa 1800
5.0cm. overall height

Lot Essay

INDENTThe arms are those of Drummond granted on 17 May, 1788 to John Drummond Esq, banker, of Charing Cross who married Hester, sister of Thomas Cholmondeley, Lord Delamere in 1789. The version above would have been borne by one of the descendants of this marriage or his second marriage to Barbara, daughter of Charles Chester of Chicheley, Co. Buckingham in 1806

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