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Description: | A cast gilded brass fob seal, dating from the late 18th ? 19th century. This type of seal would have hung from a gentleman?s chain, a chain that was also used for the suspension of a fob watch.
The seal itself is formed from bright blue glass, which survives in two pieces and would have been oval in shape. This glass setting would have formed the intaglio. A uniform cross-hatched design is depicted on the glass. The oval frame which would have held the intaglio also survives.
A third piece of the seal also survives, but how it was attached is unclear. This piece is formed of two disjointed oval shapes which are joined by a fold in the brass (presumably where the fob seal would have hung from). Below the fold, on both ovals there is a shell motif fanning out toward the frame of this section. On both sides of the disjointed oval a rounded knop extends downwards. This is repeated on both faces. This is presumably where this section would once have been joined to the frame.
A similar fob seal can be seen in Read, 1988, p138-9. | 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: | 1750
1900 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Liz Walker | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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