ROBERT WHITE (1802-1886) PERSONAL DESK SEAL
A MID-VICTORIAN GRANITE, SILVER AND CARNELIAN DESK SEAL, CIRCA 1869
£945
Auction: 19 May 2023 from 10:00 BST
Description
the baluster pink granite handle with fluted domed terminal enclosing a rectangular matrix engraved with armorial and motto
Dimensions
Length: 85mm, matrix: 21mm x 18mm
Footnote
Heraldry:
Arms: Argent a lion passant guardant gules imperially crowned proper between three quatrefoils sable on a chief engrailed of the last a martlet of the first
Crest: A demi-angel proper
Motto: Pur sans peur
Note:
Robert White (born 16th August 1802 died, 9th June 1886), of 23 Drummond Place, Edinburgh. Robert was the second surviving son of Adam White of Fens in the County of Roxburghshire and his wife, Catherine Ogilvy. He was by profession a Writer to the Signet having been admitted to the Society of Writers to the Signet on the 13th December 1827. Robert married Anne Reid Fogo (born 9th September 1823 died 23rd October 1905), the daughter of Thomas Macmillan Fogo, MD and his wife Anne Scott at the Parish Church of St Mary and St George, Edinburgh, aforesaid on 3rd June 1852.
Robert petitioned the Lyon Court for matriculation of arms which was dated 2nd April 1869 [Lyon Register Volume 8, Page 31].