Seal or stamp * in bronze, presenting the PBI monogram, below a dog, above a kind of tiara, from the 18th century.

This seal is in good condition. It has no sleeve.

A note: dirt, tiny little shocks and wear of time on the seal, see photos.

We are selling a large number of seals from this same collection on this site.

*Stamp :

Collector's item, the oldest examples of which date back four millennia before our era. The stamp was first used to affix the personal mark of a character to guarantee the contents of a box or an envelope, the authenticity of a document. The term seal was also used. The small personal stamp has been used in Europe since the Middle Ages. It can be a ring mounted with a hard stone intaglio, or a gold bezel engraved in hollow (signets are nothing else!). But more numerous are the handle seals, formed of a hard stone engraved in intaglio: carnelian, garnet, sapphire, rock crystal, agate; some are even antique intaglios. These little seals are sometimes jewels which are hung on a chain or on the chatelaine; like the boxes, it is often an object of gift. These seals are of variable sizes: there are tiny ones set in pretty chiselled gold mounts, others 1.5 to 2cm in diameter mounted on a handle of gold, pomponne, chiseled silver, mother-of-pearl, hard stone, wood...

Diameter : handle hole 1.5 cm
Dimensions : 2cm x 2.5cm
Length : 1.4cm

Reference: E60 312