ROXBURGH: GRANT OF ARMS FOR THE COUNTY OF ROXBURGH
ISSUED ON THE AUTHORITY OF ROBERT AURIOL DRUMMOND HAY
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 2 October 2018 at 12:00 BST
£600
Description
Earl of Kinnoul, King at Arms for Scotland, dated at Edinburgh 9th July, 1798. The grant is signed by James Home & Robert Ranken, Recorder, on vellum, with hand-coloured ensigns armorial in silver, gold, red, blue, purple and black, complete with red wax heraldic seal , suspended by white silk cord, and contained within the bottom half of its original tin skippet
Dimensions
30 x 50cm, black wooden frame
Footnote
Provenance: From the collection of Larry Hutchison