A Historic Desk Seal Owned By The Duke Of Wellington GTRexclude GVI (14051 SEP

GVI (14051 SEP

Lieutenant in 1888

shows usual period wear with some chipping

Matching paper pocket of issue from Eugen Schmidhaussler

A Historic Desk Seal Owned By The Duke Of Wellington GTRexclude GVI (14051 SEPA Historic Desk Seal Owned by The Duke of Wellington and a Geranium Leaf From Napoleons Tomb at St. Helena the seal 5 cms in height is in carved mother of pearl in the form of a four legged winged creature supporting a decorated oval, the oval inlaid with a small gold cartouche displaying a Dukes coronet over W. The seal matrix in gilt brass and engraved with a simple design of concentric circles. Contained in a small box with handwritten label This