🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Charleston Hotel ink stamp.

[hikermike]

Found this brass advertising ink stamp a few years back in the low country. Can't find much info. on it other than it was bought by p.w. seyle who supposedly was a freed slave. That's all they could find when I spoke to the charleston historical society. Where would be the best place to find information on something like this?
Thanks.

 

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[Red-Coat]

If the front side is printed backwards as the OP says, then it is most likely an ink stamp or printing plate.....not a buckle.

Completely correct... or possibly for embossing stationery. A small and obscure hotel's 'signage' would be a pretty odd choice for anyone to reproduce as a souvenir buckle... or any other kind of memorabilia. Especially as a mirrored image.

 

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[GlowingArtist]

Found this brass advertising ink stamp a few years back in the low country. Can't find much info. on it other than it was bought by p.w. seyle who supposedly was a freed slave. That's all they could find when I spoke to the charleston historical society. Where would be the best place to find information on something like this?
Thanks.
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It appears to be an Intagilo Printing Plate. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intaglio_(printmaking)