Name: Auction: A 19TH-CENTURY SILVER-MOUNTED AGATE DESK SEAL
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 819 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

A Private Collection of Seals: Highlights from The Matrix Collection

Sale number: 749 The Matrix Collection has been carefully compiled by the late Mr David Morris and showcases a variety of personal desk seals as well as institutional and organisational desk seals. The seals were collected for their historical interest as well as their beauty. We are pleased to offer select pieces from the collection with some highlights including Sir Walter Scott’s desk seal, the Commercial Bank of Scotland seal and the Archbishop Spottiswoode seal.

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Kier Alexander, Silver Specialist | Lyon & Turnbull Auctioneers

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Highlights from The Matrix Collection

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the agate handle of facetted form, to a silver mounted collar with engraved foliate and floral decoration, the agate matrix, of possible Sassanian (6th-2nd BC) origin, of oval outline with an engraved depiction of a stag walking with spread antlers below a crescent moon within a linear border, a probable reference to the Classical mythology Diana the Huntress

A 19TH-CENTURY SILVER-MOUNTED AGATE DESK SEAL

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