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A SERIES of casts in tinted sulphur, with a few impressions in gutta percha and sealing-wax, of original Seals, for the most part Scottish, but with some miscellaneous Engglish and foreign examples interspersed, from the collection of Henry Laing, of Edinburgh. The greater portion of this series has been described and figured by Mr. Laing in his Descriptive Catalogue of Impressions from Ancient Scottish Seals, Edinburgh, 1850 ; and in his Supplemental Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Scottis...
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Kingdom of Scotland: Casts of Scottish seals etc. Henry Laing, of Edinburgh: Casts of Scottish seals, from his collections.
SEALS of English Sovereigns, viz.:-William I., Henry I., Stephen, Richard I., John, Henry III., Eleanor of Provence, Edward I. to Edward IV., llenry VII., James I., Oliver Cromwell, and James II. as James VII. of Scotland, 1685. Presented by the Marquess of Westminster.