AN UNUSUAL VARI-COLOURED OBLONG GOLD FOB-SEAL, the handle formed as four waisted straps resting on four hemi-spherical beads at the angles and chased overall in red and green gold with foliage and rosettes on a matted yellow gold ground, the grey agate seal engraved with a coat-of-arms in draped mantling, on engraved gold serpent split ring, circa 1830
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AN UNUSUAL VARI-COLOURED OBLONG GOLD FOB-SEAL, the handle formed as four waisted straps resting on four hemi-spherical beads at the angles and chased overall in red and green gold with foliage and rosettes on a matted yellow gold ground, the grey agate seal engraved with a coat-of-arms in draped mantling, on engraved gold serpent split ring, circa 1830
Lot Essay
INDENTThe arms are those of Prest impaled by another