PROBABLY CALCUTTA (KOLKATA), NORTH INDIA, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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FIVE ANGLO-INDIAN SEALS
PROBABLY CALCUTTA (KOLKATA), NORTH INDIA, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Comprising five seals carved in nasta'liq, four of red agate and one of green bloodstone, three variously set within metal and agate handles, two unmounted, two bearing dates from the first decades of the 19th century
The seals between 3⁄4in. (2cm.) and 1 1⁄8in. (2.7cm.) across

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The seals are in the names of:
1. Sir John Charles Dalrymple-Hay (1746-1812). He became the 1^st Baronet of Park Place, County Wigtown, in Scotland in 1798. Sir John had fought previously in the American War of Independence gaining the rank of Colonel. His whereabouts in India are not known.
2. Sahib James McFarlane 1810
3. Iftikhar al-Dawla Mu’in al-Mulk Robert Graham Muzaffar Jang Bahadur 1220 (1805-6)
4. Richard Henry Dayton (Dean?) Bahadur 1242 (1826-7)
5. George James Robertson

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