Best (and only) Wax Seals - Anyone else have some to post?

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Iron Patch said:
mile-ender said:
So, looking at all these seals, I'm starting to think that's what this is. Originally I thought it was just a pendant - the bottom appears to be smooth, without design.


Looks good to me! :thumbsup:
Excellent! I love these "best" posts, it gives a chance to i.d. a lot of my stuff. Inspiring. Do you think I should try cleaning the bottom - or leave as is?
 

mile-ender said:
Iron Patch said:
mile-ender said:
So, looking at all these seals, I'm starting to think that's what this is. Originally I thought it was just a pendant - the bottom appears to be smooth, without design.


Looks good to me! :thumbsup:
Excellent! I love these "best" posts, it gives a chance to i.d. a lot of my stuff. Inspiring. Do you think I should try cleaning the bottom - or leave as is?


If mine, I'd just leave it.
 

Iron Patch said:
mile-ender said:
Iron Patch said:
mile-ender said:
So, looking at all these seals, I'm starting to think that's what this is. Originally I thought it was just a pendant - the bottom appears to be smooth, without design.


Looks good to me! :thumbsup:
Excellent! I love these "best" posts, it gives a chance to i.d. a lot of my stuff. Inspiring. Do you think I should try cleaning the bottom - or leave as is?


If mine, I'd just leave it.
:icon_thumleft:
 

IP,

thanks for the ID in the today's finds forum. here's mine...
 

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Heres the one and only I have ever found and its gold! Missing the design on the bottom though. But its really cool.
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SouthJerseyJim said:
Heres the one and only I have ever found and its gold! Missing the design on the bottom though. But its really cool.
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Not missing, its deliberate.
 

Here is one of the 4 I have found....the other 3 where very ornate like this one, but sadly "no where to be found". None with the actual seal but still a very cool find. This one came from a Circa 1750's cellar hole site.
 

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Both these seals where found in the same week, not long ago. The very large round lead one by our John. It's a personal seal 12th century, it reads-S.WILELMI.FIL.WALTER, SEAL OF WILELMI DAUGHTER OF WALTER. the second seal is a nice 17th century seal found by me.
 

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1824 General Lafayette Wax Seal Commemorating His Return to New York

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It reads "La Fayette Landed at New York 17 ? 1824".
 

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Found my first one this fall in a bean field here in Wisconsin.
 

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I don't but yours is nice. That's one relic that keeps evading me.I was with a guy once who dug one near me in one of Shermans infantry camps. No doubt it was stolen from a wealthy person in savannah or around the area. It had an orange stone and it had a weasel on it, and man it was big and beautiful. That's as close as I've ever come. Congrats on yours and all the nice ones others have posted.

Laszlo
 

Only , what Im thinking are best 4 of 23 I found , first is Sweden Hetman wars 1624-32 , second - royal shoemaker 1600-1700, third is nobles personal 1540-60 , fourth is royal prussian secretary circa 1680-96
 

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Iron Patch said:
Took me quite a while just to get these 3 but I like em. I did have 4 but gave one to a land owner seeing how impressed he was with it.
 

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My hunting buddy dug one 5 feet from me one time,made me sick. :tongue3:
 

Here's another I dug last spring...
 

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