Beheer

LOT 699
PASSED

[Heraldry] Collection of ca. 800 wax seals,

arranged in 5 modern binders and a few boxes, mostly 19th-century.

Highly varied collection. Lightbrown binder: 70 wax seals, mostly on (parts of) original, addressed envelopes ( some to C.C.H. van der Aa, Maatschappij der Wetenschappen, Haarlem), circa 1780, seals of e.g. C. Bilgen Smithausen, J.R. Daman, Prof. Gruner, J.G. Herbig, Graaf van Herzberg, J.F. Martinet, C.P. Schacht, P.S. Kok, W./ Allart, J.G. Loten, C.A. Kloekhof. Also, later seals belonging to Ploos van Amstel, G.F. Baron thoe Schwartzenberg en Hohenlansberg, de Heer van Rijswijk and seals of Ameland, Doetinchem, Assendelft, Leeuwarden, Schoterland etc. Grey binder: 134 wax seals of the Lutheran church authorities, Lutheran charities and Dutch places such as Alkmaar, Amsterdam, Arnhem, Beverwijk, Brielle, Delft, Den Haag, Deventer, Edam, Enkhuizen, Gouda, Groningen, Harlingen, Kampen, Maastricht, Medemblik, Meppel, Middelburg, Monnikendam, Nijmegen, Pekela, Rotterdam, Sappemeer, Tiel, Utrecht, Vaals, Weesp, Wildervank, Woerden, Zierikzee, Zutphen and Zwolle. Also ca. 100 stamped municipal seals on paper. Red binder I: ca. 245 wax seals belonging to individuals (w.o. Bouvier, Von Bülow, Jhr. Calkoen, H. Dunlop, Godefroy, Hesselink, Labry van Troostenburg de Bruijn, Van Leeuwen, M.H. Morees, A. Oppenheim, G. baron Rosenthal, De Ruyter van Stevenich, S. Hubertus Snoeck), banks, schools, trade offices, post offices (e.g. Boxmeer, Culemborg, Deventer, Eindhoven, Huizen, Maastricht, Oude Pekela, Raamsdonk, Smilde, Zierikzee), telegraph offices, 's Rijks Schatkist (National Treasury), pay officers, courts and the navy. Red binder II: ca. 230 largely unidentified wax seals, e.g. the Queen's secretary, Dutch consuls and monograms. Blue binder: ca. 152 partly unidentified wax seals, such as seals on business cards (Heinrich Prinz von Schönberg Waldenburg, A.J.H. Baron van Lijnden, Jhr. J.E. de Brauw), and seals identified on the back, e.g. d'Ablaing van Giessenburg, Jonkheer van Haeften, Van Heemskerk, Copmte et noble seigneur de Lippe Biesterfeld, Comte Oberndorf, Gräfin von Reichenbach, De Ruyter van Steveninck, de Simonis, graaf Zedtwitz and seals identified on the front, such as Gleiberger Ampt-Siegel (1703), Fürstl. Nassau-Weilburgisches Forstsiegel

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