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Description: | An oval seal matrix made of light blue glass with a copper alloy frame. This matrix was probably set in a watch chain fob. The surviving copper alloy frame is only an oval loop round the edge of the setting and measures 19.6mm long and 18.3mm wide. Three stubs project from the back of the frame and a fourth is missing. These are all that remains of the handle of the matrix. The translucent pale blue glass setting is oval with a flat face and a bevelled edge. The reverse has eight faces which meet in a point like a pyramid. From the apex to the face of the setting is the thickest point at 7.2mm. The oval front face is engraved with the design of a man wearing a short classical tunic who, on the impression, faces left and holds a shoulder high staff with a rounded top. In front of the man is a stag, also facing left with its forelegs raised and resting on a tree. The glass is worn but the surviving metal is in good condition and is hardly corroded. It may have been tinned originally. This seal matrix probably dates to the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries. | 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: | 1700
1900 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Amy Downes | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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