Furniture, Works of Art and Clocks - 3rd July 2019
Lot 671
A Victorian patent seal
Estimate £100 - £150
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Description
A Victorian patent seal, in a tooled leather box, the hinged lid centred with a gilt Royal Coat of Arms, containing a vellum letters patent, no:2994, awarded to John Fowler of 28 Cornhill and William Worby of Ipswich for 'the invention of and Improvement in Apparatus used when ploughing, tilling or cultivating land', valid for a period of 14 years, with a wax seal.