A GROUP OF VICTORIAN IVORY HAND-SEALS
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A GROUP OF VICTORIAN IVORY HAND-SEALS

LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed8 July 2010

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A GROUP OF VICTORIAN IVORY HAND-SEALS
LATE 19TH CENTURY
Four steel-mounted hand-seals with ivory handles, the matrices engraved with coat-of-arms; together with, two gilt-metal mounted ivory hand-seals, one with carnelian matrix engraved with coat-of-arms, the other with bloodstone matrix engraved 'Althorp'
3½ in. (88 mm.) high and smaller
The arms on four of the hand-seals are those of Spencer for John Poyntz, 5th Earl Spencer (1835-1910). (6)