£693
A Private Collection of Seals: Highlights from The Matrix Collection | 749
Auction: 19 May 2023 at 11:00 BST
the turned laburnum baluster handle socket mounted to an oval brass matrix, engraved with a bee skep within flowers and trees with motto ALVEUM ACCIPITE SOC:LIT:BANFF around
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Banff is a town in Aberdeenshire. The Banff Literary Society was instituted by five local youths in 1810, and the purpose of the society was to form a library and to hold meetings where essays could be read aloud, and literary topics could be discussed. The library held an extensive collection of technical literature on farming and practical philosophy of the highest intellectual content, amongst a plethora of other literature. The library was handed over to the town at the end of the 19th century.