Five Desk Seals, mid to late 19th century

comprising: a gilt-bronze seal decorated with adoressed winged cherub heads, later malachite finial, a silver-gilt seal in the form of an eagle on a base chased with flowers and set with cabochon stones and with large chalcedony matrix, a silver-gilt seal in the form of an eagle's leg below a blue glass ball, a malachite urn form seal with metal armorial matrix, and a large faceted carnelian seal with later openwork silver mounts set with colored stones

Sotheby's, Zurich, 13 November 1979, lots 242, 245 part

one stone missing from eagle seal, otherwise good
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