THE DALY AND OSBORNE FAMILY TRIPLE MATRIX FOB SEAL, CIRCA 1810
£819
Auction: 17 October 2023 from 10:00 BST
Description
The fluted handle with loop bale, to an oval cornelian matrix engraved with the arms, opening to an agate matrix engraved with the crest, and a smaller matrix engraved with initials
Dimensions
Length: 4.5cm, matrices: 2.5cm x 1.9cm, 1.9cm x 1.3cm, 1.1cm x 0.6cm
Footnote
Heraldry:
Arms of Daly impaling Osborne
(on the dexter): Per fess argent and or a lion rampant per fess sable and gules in chief two dexter hands couped of the last (for Daly)
(on the sinister): Sable a griffin segreant between ten billets or (for Osborne)
Crest: Before an oak tree proper a greyhound courant sable (for Daly)
Motto: Deo et fidelis [faithful to God and the King]
Arms of Osborne (being suspended by a ribbon): Sable a griffin segreant between ten billets or
It has been suggested that a marriage entry to James Charles Robert Parker Daly and Harriet Osborne in the Register of the Parish Church of St. John Thanet, Co. Kent 10th April 1862, could relate to this seal.