Eagle seal wax stamp of some sort?

dgoodyear

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I found this yesterday in the middle of a farm field which is pretty interesting. It looks like some sort of wax seal stamper because everything is reversed and recessed. It's a few inches across (sorry don't have exact measurements as I'm working from the pics on my phone next to some other things I found but there is an ihp in the pic for size reference). It's also about 3/4" thick and solid so it has some weight to it. What's really cool about it is that it has an eagle with a shield in the middle holding the branches and arrows and the ribbon. It's been partially hit by a plow but you can read the writing. Around the top it says Consulate U.S.A. and at the bottom it says "Realejo." I think its all one word and the last letter I'm pretty sure is an O though a plow nicked it. There are no other markings on it but I'll bet it looks cool pressed in wax (assuming that's what its for). The only things I can find are Realejo is a city in South America. The eagle design looks older and closer to 1800's though I honestly don't know. It's really cool either way.
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very cool find,love the eagle, some info
search term....consulate realejo, brings up
a newspaper mention of a
E. S. Lane, Esq., Consulate Agent, Realejo, Nicaragua
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Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 1, Number 33, 25 April 1851
Page 1 Advertisements Column 4
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SDU18510425.2.3.4&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1


A mr. j e russell is mentioned for the postion of consulate realejo
in march 1862,not sure if he was appointed
https://books.google.com/books?id=-...ge&q=mr. j e russell consulate realejo&f=true
following the para is this
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Great stuff! Thanks for finding the links. I found this in Somerset County Md area. I'm hoping between information like what you're finding and possibly going backwards with land records, they'll meet somewhere that makes really cool sense!
 

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From the ebay listing I found I thought I'd screenshot the one or two images there for reference here just in case the listing goes away. One is an original letter using a very similar seal (for Montreal office in 1854) and the other is a closer image of the seal.. its spot on, just a different city.
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