THE MOFFAT RAILWAY COMPANY DESK SEAL
A LATE 19TH-CENTURY STEEL DESK SEAL, CIRCA 1881
£328
Auction: 19 May 2023 from 10:00 BST
Description
the circular disc engraved a central crest and motto within the legend in a border, with pierced spigot to reverse
Dimensions
Diameter of matrix: 41mm
Provenance
Provenance:
Sheffield Railway Auctions, 11th December 1999, lot 351
Footnote
Note:
The construction of a single-track branch line from Moffat to Beattock, which was situated on the main line between Carlisle and Glasgow, by the Moffat railway Company, authorised in 1881 and the line opened in 1883.
It was leased to the Caledonian Railway in 1884 and taken over completely in 1889.
The town of Moffat had no armorial bearings so displayed the Johnstone crest of a winged spur and the motto: Nunquam non apparatus (never unready). Moffat had been created a Burgh of Regality in favour of James Johnstone of Corhead in 1684 and this was confirmed to James Johnstone, 3rd Earl of Annandale in 1662