A GOLD-CASED BLOODSTONE SEAL

PROBABLY ENGLISH, 2ND QUARTER OF 19TH CENTURY

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A GOLD-CASED BLOODSTONE SEAL
PROBABLY ENGLISH, 2ND QUARTER OF 19TH CENTURY
Modelled as an armoured gauntlet grasping a hand seal chased with acanthus leaves and engraved with scrolls and terminating in a small circular chalcedony matrix with intaglio crest of a phoenix issuing from a coronet within a buckle and strap cartouche with motto Fide et Amore, the opposite end terminating in an octagonal bloodstone matrix with intaglio coat of arms with blackamoor supporters and the same crest as before
3.5/8 in. long (9.2 cm.)

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Lot Essay

The arms are for Richard Seymour-Conway who became 4th Marquess of Hertford in 1842 but significantly there is no coronet to denote his rank of marquess (in addition to his being Earl of Hertford, Earl of Yarmouth, Viscount Beauchamp and Baron Conway and a KG from 1846) so the seal may have been used by a younger brother while the succession was in flux between 1830-1860.

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