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Description: | 19th century fob-seal matrix with elaborate design of the handle. The seal was cast cu-alloy anbd possibly gilded. The seal itself bears the negative of a male bust made from crystal or, more likely, glass. S. Riddle from the Lancaster Maritime Museum could identify the ship on the handle and suggests that it might be a paddle steamer because it has a paddle box on either side. She says: "Although paddle steamers were in use and production for a long time (1820s-1948), I think that it is an earlier design of ship fue to the masts (it is a full-rigged ship) and sails. Earlier steamers depended on sail power as well as steam. The earlier steamers also predate screw propulsion , which the ship probably would not have had. It has the British design for a paddle box and most probably dates to 1820-1834'." | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1820
1840 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Dot Boughton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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