Flathead25
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- Mar 12, 2013
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FINALLY!.....It's a swivel fob seal from a Colonial VA site
Ok. I posted this over a year ago but never put it in the "what is it" section. I all but lost interest in it until I saw some old posts on here for wax seal matrices. I spent at least 4 hrs on Google trying to find out what it is. I first started looking at intaglio pieces and thought it was a piece of jewelry but couldn't firgure out why it had holes at the top and bottom. If it were jewelry wouldn't it have holes on the sides so the image sat upright? Or a single hole at the top to hang from a necklace? Long story short, I finally found some examples of what I had found over a year ago. My question is....were these seals with only an image kind of generic? I would love to try and find out if it was used as an actual seal or just a decoration. Has anyone had any luck tracking down the seals owner or examples of them on old documents or letters?
I apologize this is not a current find, but I wanted to share it as I almost feel like it's a new find for me...now that I know what it is.
Ok. I posted this over a year ago but never put it in the "what is it" section. I all but lost interest in it until I saw some old posts on here for wax seal matrices. I spent at least 4 hrs on Google trying to find out what it is. I first started looking at intaglio pieces and thought it was a piece of jewelry but couldn't firgure out why it had holes at the top and bottom. If it were jewelry wouldn't it have holes on the sides so the image sat upright? Or a single hole at the top to hang from a necklace? Long story short, I finally found some examples of what I had found over a year ago. My question is....were these seals with only an image kind of generic? I would love to try and find out if it was used as an actual seal or just a decoration. Has anyone had any luck tracking down the seals owner or examples of them on old documents or letters?
I apologize this is not a current find, but I wanted to share it as I almost feel like it's a new find for me...now that I know what it is.
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