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Seal with the Slepovron Coat-of-Arms

Late 18th-early 19th centuries

Golden quartz, silver and turquoise. 34 x 40 mm, height 62 mm

The seal was carved from a rectangular piece of golden quartz and placed in a silver mount set with turquoise. At the top there is a spherical handle. The matrix depicts the Polish Slepowron coat of arms (a raven perched on a horseshoe with a ring in its beak) framed by trophies. Such an image was very typical for the nobility living in the west and south-west regions of Russia in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

 

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