Fob seal
Category
Jewellery
Date
1825 (circa)
Materials
Gold and jasper.
Measurements
30 mm (Height)
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 288820
Summary
A gold fob seal dating from around 1825. The seal is of scrolling form, with floral embossed decoration and fluted base. It is mounted with a plain, unengraved polished jasper base.
Provenance
Seal, possibly that recorded in the 1886 inventory of the family jewel case as ‘blood stone seal, not engraved’. Thence by descent to Henry Harpur-Crewe (1921-91) and transferred with Calke Abbey and its contents to the National Trust by the Treasury in lieu of Capital Transfer Tax in 1985 with an endowment provided by the National Heritage Memorial Fund.