MODERN IMPRESSIONS AND CAST (29) collected by Maj. Alfred Charles Heales, the ecclesiologist and genealogist, (d. circ. 1896). Presented by Mrs. P. D. Cunnell, as executor of Mrs. V. B. Heales, widow of the collector's son, Maj. A. G. Heales. As follows:
CASTS made from electrotypes, etc., in a collection acquired by the Derbyshire County Museums in 1955 from J. E. Foskett, The Donkey Inn, Charles Hill, Tilford, Surrey. The casts were made in the British Museum.
CASTS of impressions Purchased with the Holland House Papers, Add. MSS. 51318-52254 and Add. Ch. 75522-75558, from the Trustees of the 5th Earl of Ilchester
IMPRESSIONS IN DENTAL WAX from the matrices of seals of companies which formed the Southern Railway. The impressions were made about 1947, when there were 105 such matrices at Waterloo Station, together with a cast of one other which was believed to have been lost by enemy action between 1939 and 1945. The present collection represents 71 of these. Presented by Charles Edward Clifton Townsend, Esq., M.I.C.E., of the Port of London Authority.
Scope & Content:
Railways: Seals of companies bel. to Southern Railway: n.d. Southern Railway: Seals of companies bel. to: 19th-20th cent.
IMPRESSIONS of two medieval seals in white wax, at least one ecclesiastical, formerly attached to a charter and both still attached to a tag. Purchased with Add.Chs. 75587-75630, Sotheby's, 12 Dec. 1966, lot 170, but not identified as belonging to any of these charters.
SEALS of Bonefey son of Briton (with a Hebrew inscription), and his son, Josce of Nottingham; temp. Hen. III. Casts from Westminster Abbey Muniments, 6734. Presented by Mr Daniel M. Friedenberg of the Jewish Museum, New York.
MODERN IMPRESSIONS of the Great Seal of Edward VII for Ireland, obverse and reverse, from matrices in the National Museum of Ireland. Deposited in accordance with a stipulation of the Reviewing Committee for the Export of Works of Art.
Scope & Content:
Ireland: Edward VII of England: Casts of Great Seal of Edward VII for Ireland: n.d.
PROOF IMPRESSIONS of seals by the Rev. Allan Gairdner Wyon (d. 1962). Presented by Langford-Jones, Esq., to the Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum, and transferred, July 1984.
Scope & Content:
Reverend Allan Gairdner Wyon, sculptor and medallist; Vicar of Newlyn: Proof impressions of seals made by Rev. Allan Gairdner Wyon: 1945-1962.