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The Great Seal of England: some notes and suggestions

1936/01/01 by Hilary Jenkinson · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Maritime and Coastal Archaeology #Majesty #Brother #Queen (butterfly) #Seal (emblem) #History #Subject (documents) #Genealogy #Ancient history #Subject matter #Classics #Archaeology #Law #Library science #Political science

paper · doi:10.1017/s0003581500011355

openalex publication_date 1936/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21

Abstract

To commemorate Queen Victoria's Jubilee a work on the Great Seals of England by Alfred Benjamin Wyon, who died in 1884, was completed and published by his brother Allan in 1887; both had the special qualification that they held the Office of Seal-Engraver to Her Majesty as their father and grandfather had held it before them; and their work has remained the standard authority on the subject. It seems suitable in the present year to see how much the discoveries of nearly fifty years have added to it.

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