THE PHILIPS FAMILY DESK SEAL
AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY AGATE DESK SEAL, CIRCA 1900
£328
Auction: 17 October 2023 from 10:00 BST
Description
The facetted agate handle of baluster form, to an integral matrix, engraved with the armorials of the Phillips family and motto 'Simplex Mundis'
Dimensions
Length: 7.7cm, matrix: 2.4cm x 2.7cm
Footnote
Note:
The arms are those of Philips, of The Heath House, Tean, Co Stafford. It was probably made for Burton Henry Philips who married Madeline, second daughter of Colonel George Martin in 1904. He inherited the family home, The Heath House, on the death of his father in 1907. The present Gothic Revival house was constructed in 1836 for John Burton Philips replacing an earlier house which, with the estate, had been in the family since the 1680s.