Wax seal

Description

A wax seal impression in a circular wooden box with a plate engraved with: Comm. Pleas Ireland. The seal is from the Court of Common Pleas during the reign of King George IV.

Object data

Accession number

HCM 316

Date made

19th century AD

Materials

Wax; Wood

Collection

Dimensions (cm)

Archival information

File of material relating to a wax seal and box. Includes note (date unspecified) in the hand of Michael Holland, Registrar, Hunt Museum, which attributes object to nineteenth-century Ireland; Hunt Museum object comment sheet (25 April 1996) containing comments made about object by John Cherry, British Museum. Dates object to 1822-30 and mentions George IV and the Court of [ ] pleas in connection with it; note (date unspecified) relating to the objects registration number.

Place of collection

Copyright Attribution

Wax seal | Wax, Wood | 19th century AD | The Hunt Collection | PD

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