02503crm\a22001695i\4500 356959 20260121174310.0 190610\1710\\\\enk\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\nzxx\\ UtOrBLW [Triple-sided rotating fob seal matrix bearing the arms of Sir John Stonehouse, Lady Penelope Stonehouse and related crest] [realia] approximately 1710. 1 object ; length 3 cm diameter of matrix 2 cm + another fob seal and three keys, all on a fob chain. three-dimensional form tdf rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. dispersed 2025-05-05 DJL local DFo Seals (artifacts) aat Fob chains. aat Stonehouse, John, Sir, 1673-1733, associated name. Stonehouse, Penelope, Lady, 1686- associated name. Great Britain England. naf The Eric and Mary Weinmann Acquisitions Fund, funder. 263 DFo US-DFo 271924 Purchase made possible by The Eric and Mary Weinmann Acquisitions Fund. From dealer's description: "[STONEHOUSE, John.][A triple-sided rotating fob seal bearing the arms of Sir John Stonehouse, Lady Penelope Stonehouse and related crest.] [England, c.1710.] Fob seal, steel (height 4.3cm) the triple-sided rotating matrix mounted within a flat pierced & engraved housing decorated with floral flourishes, flowers & bird heads, incorporating suspension loop, attached to a contemporaneous related fob chain with 3 watch keys (1 articulated) & a second fob seal, steel (height 2.8cm) with engraved black [glass?] matrix, overall in a very good state of preservation. Displaying skilled English craftsmanship of the era of Queen Anne, this triple-sided rotating fob seal bears matrices engraved with the arms of Sir John Stonehouse (1672-1733), his wife Lady Penelope Stonehouse, née Dashwood, and a dog emblem, the Stonehouse family crest. The stylised baroque flourishes of the engraved and pierced housing incorporate foliage, flowers and bird heads. Attached to the same chain is a second smaller fob seal, the matrix depicting a dove bearing an olive branch, and three watch keys, one articulated. Sir John Stonehouse married Penelope Dashwood in 1706 so this fob seal must have been made soon afterwards, perhaps c.1710. Radley Hall in Oxfordshire, now part of Radley College, was built for Stonehouse in the 1720s." Ordered from Samuel Gedge D9306, 2019-05-29, Cat. 28 #104. 505043 271924 oai:catalog.folger.edu:356959 GLOBAL_SET BIB Vault 01545crm\a22002175i\4500 354355 20251009113208.0 180522s1680\\\\enk\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\nzxx\\ UtOrBLW 270647 Fob seal matrix bearing the coat of arms of a member of the Scofield family [realia]. 1680. 1 object ; length 3 cm diameter of matrix 2 cm three-dimensional form tdf rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. Also available as a digital reproduction. revised 2019-01 EEW 1 link Luna local DFo condition reviewed 2019-01-17 Metal object: handle with gloves. ECB pda DFo Great Britain England. naf US-DFo DeckC-Rare Z.d.37 From dealer's description: "This seventeenth century English heraldic fob seal matrix was made for a member of the Schofield family. At the heraldic visitation of Lancashire made by Sir William Dugdale (1605-1686) in 1664 the Scofield (or Schofield) family of Scofield were recorded as entitled to bear “Argent a Fess between three Bull’s Heads couped Gules.” The sealing of letters with wax was a ubiquitous aspect of early modern correspondence, however relatively few seal matrices of this kind have survived." Ordered from Samuel Gedge, D 9208, 2018-05-21, catalog 26, item 21. 502580 270647 https://digitalcollections.folger.edu/bib354355-502580 Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library Z.d.37 oai:catalog.folger.edu:354355 GLOBAL_SET BIB Online Vault 02136crm\a22002175i\4500 354354 20251009113208.0 180522s16uu\\\\enk\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\nzxx\\ UtOrBLW 270646 Desk seal matrix bearing the coat of arms of a member of the Gregory family of Northamptonshire [realia]. England, 17th century. 1 object ; length 7 cm with a matrix at both ends (one with full heraldic achievement, diameter 3cm, one with escutcheon only, diameter 3cm, both in reverse three-dimensional form tdf rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. Also available as a digital reproduction. condition reviewed 2019-01-17 Metal object: handle with gloves. ECB pda DFo revised 2019-01 EEW 1 link Luna local DFo Great Britain England. naf US-DFo DeckC-Rare Z.d.36 From dealer's description: "Desk seal matrix, brass (length 6.3cm) with a matrix at both ends (one with full heraldic achievement, diameter 2.6cm, one with escutcheon only, diameter 2.3cm, both in reverse), light wear to extremities, in a very good state of preservation. This seventeenth century English heraldic brass desk seal matrix was made for a member of the Gregory family of Northamptonshire, perhaps a lawyer named Richard Gregory of Harleston in Northamptonshire. The coat of arms can in any case be idenfitifed as belonging to a descendant of the marriage in the fourteenth century of William Gregory who married Alice daughter and heir of Robert de Cawley of Warwickshire, (see: Camden, William, The visitation of the county of Leicester in the year 1619, London, 1870, pp.187-188). The sealing of letters with wax was a ubiquitous aspect of early modern correspondence, however relatively few seal matrices of this kind have survived." Ordered from Samuel Gedge, D 9208, 2018-05-21, catalog 26, item 20. 502579 270646 https://digitalcollections.folger.edu/bib354354-502579 Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library Z.d.36 oai:catalog.folger.edu:354354 GLOBAL_SET BIB Online Vault 02030crm\a22002175i\4500 1134117 20260408154938.0 230721s1580\\\\enk\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\zxx\\ [Signet ring with matrix of a merchant’s mark] [realia] England, ca. 1580. 1 item ; three-dimensional form tdf rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. DFo dispersed 2024-10-30 DJL local DFo Image-making equipment. aat Signet rings. aat Great Britain England, publication place. naf The B. F Saul Rare Book Acquisitions Fund, funder. SaulREF757047 DFo US-DFo 272819 8 x 5 x 3 cm From dealer's description: "TUDOR SIGNET RING WITH MERCHANT’S MARK MATRIX 7. [SEAL MATRIX.] [Signet ring with matrix of a merchant’s mark.] [England, c.1580.] Signet ring, copper alloy (diameter of ring approx. 2.7cm, size X, oval bezel, diameter 1.5 x 1cm) some old pitting & corrosion, sometime lacquered for preservation. A scarce survival, this Tudor ring can be dated to the reign of queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603), most probably c. 1580. European merchants of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries marked their goods with these symbols, known as merchants’ marks, also penning them on bills of lading, and incorporating them into matrices used to seal their letters and documents in wax, as here. The sealing of documents underpinned the authentication of both letter writing and legal transactions in early modern manuscript culture, making seal matrices significant objects, connected intimately with the identity of owners. For examples of comparable designs on wax seals on Elizabethan mercantile correspondence, see: P. Beale, A. Almond & M. Scott Archer, The Corsini Letters, Stroud, 2011, plates 11-14." Ordered from Samuel Gedge, D9666, 223-07-07, Catalogue XXXIV, item #7 1000134 272819 Purchase made possible by The B. F. Saul Rare Book Acquisitions Fund. oai:catalog.folger.edu:1134117 GLOBAL_SET BIB ORDER Vault 05139crm\a2200289\i\4500 128547 20251009083222.0 030730s1769\\\\xx\000\\\\\\\\\\\\rn\\\\u (DCFGES)01301053 128547 DFo DFo UtOrBLW Wood no. 18 ART Inv. 1119; cs364 [Ink stand containing a glass ink bottle and a pounce box, each having a silver top with a portrait of Shakespeare] [realia]. [England] : [s.n.], [1769] 1 inkstand : mulberry tree wood ; 13 in. high x 8 1/8 in. wide x 4 7/8 in. deep. three-dimensional form tdf rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia wood rdamat Certification: from documents purchased with the ink stand, now cataloged as Y.c.1465 (1-3). There are 2 letters. The first concerns the presentation of the ink stand to George Keate by the Corporation of Stratford-upon-Avon, signed by William Hunt, Town Clerk, May 3, 1769, which reads in part, "Sir. Mr. Wheler [Robert Bell Wheler] has intimated to us, that you have several times taken the trouble of attending your friend Mr. Garrick in our favour; and that you have shown much attention and regard to the place which has the honour of giving birth to the admired Shakespear [sic]. As you so much revere his memory, we beg your acceptance of a writing stand from a mulberry tree planted by Shakespeare's own hand..." The second letter is George Keate's reply acknowledging receipt of the ink stand from Mr. Wheler with the accompanying letter. The third item is a note on the back of a calling card for Sir Charles Marshall (name crossed out with a pen) which is inscribed, "This inkstand was given to Mr. White by Mrs. Keate (by will) the widow of the gentleman to whom it was presented in May 1769 by the Corporation of Stratford-on-Avon---Acton Hill, 1836. Entry in the Dictionary of National Biography under George Keate mentions the ink stand in connection with a specific work by Keate which reads: "Ferney; an epistle to Voltaire, 1768. In praise of Voltaire and his works, but with compliments to Shakespeare, for which the author was rewarded, in the jubilee 1769, by the mayor and corporation of Stratford-upon-Avon, with an inkstand made out of a mulberry-tree planted by Shakespeare, and with the freedom on the town." Footed ink stand carved with a projecting rim at the base 1/8" wide and 1/4 high, to which the feet have been attached. They are flush joined at the corners and arched into the rim in profile. The stepped lid has a lower interlacement band and above, an egg and dart pattern. A groove has been carved on the box under the lid, and each of the 4 corners has been beveled and decorated with a single vertical band of molding. The front has a silver button which operates a catch and is backed by a silver escutcheon fastened with 3 silver round-head screws. The lid has a loop handle in silver. The interior is lined with red velvet which has been decorated with silver braid and fitted with partitions which hold a pounce box and an ink bottle. Each has a chased silver lid with a profile portrait of Shakespeare encircled by a wreath. Provenance: Card in Mrs. Folger's card file under Mulberry reads: Bought of Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, Dec. 6- 1905. Former owner not known. Catalog, Film Acc. 484 (234), is annotated with the buyer's name, Pearson and the hammer price L115/-/-, for the ink stand and manuscripts. HCF bought of J. Pearson & co., Dec. 12 1905 for L115/-/-. The ink stand was recorded 2 years earlier in another sale by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, Dec. 6, 1903, lot no. 6. In the Sotheby catalog, Film Acc. 484 (228), the buyer is listed as Aston and the hammer price as L120/-/-. Former owner not known. Condition reviewed 19890500 the lid, originally attached with 2 silver hinges, has a replacement hinge in brass (left side, facing front) which is larger than the silver hinge causing the box to appear warped on the left side. The original hinge has 1 of the 4 screws missing. A crack on the right side of the lid measures 1 7/8", on the left side a horizontal crack measures 2 1/4", and on the back, lower right, a triangular crack extends 3/4". The bottom of the box is framed with a rim which as 2 diagonal cracks which measure 3/4" on the front and 1 3/8" on the right side. The bottom of the box has a crack on the left side 1", on the right side 2", and toward the back 1". There are losses in this area Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Portraits. sh 85121023 Portraits. tgm008085g gmgpc US-DFo DeckB-Art Wood no. 18 cs364 120334 This record contains unverified data from a re-keying contract and may contain incorrect or incomplete text. Please consult Curator for assistance. oai:catalog.folger.edu:128547 GLOBAL_SET DeckB-Art Wood no. 18 cs364 BIB Vault 01756crc\a22002175i\4500 1134282 20260408152338.0 231108q16251649enknnn\\\\\\\\\\\\r\zxx\\ Charles I boarded oak desk box [realia]. England, 17th century 1 item ; 32" wide, 14 1/2" high and 19 1/2" deep three-dimensional form tdf rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. The "FAST ACC" number is a temporary call number. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. DFo The Richard J. Kuhta Fund for Library Acquisitions, funder. KuhtaREF757005 DFo US-DFo FAST ACC 272879 272879 From dealer's description: "Charles I boarded oak desk box, Exeter work, Devon, with a carved shell motif front rail, sides and back plain, with a sloping lid used as a desk, the interior with shelves." Ordered from Paul Fitzsimmons, D9691, 2023-10-25, email quote 1000173 From dealer's description: Condition is very good and it is a most beautiful piece and the colour is fantastic. Priced at £2850, this can be £2000 for the museum. Dimensions: 32" wide, 14 1/2" high and 19 1/2" deep Provenance: From my own personal collection, I purchased this over 30 years ago from Bradfield Manor near to Exeter. (Paul Fitzsimmons) [HW: it shut down as a school in 1997 after belonging to the Walrond family from 13th c to 1966] Mark: I think this is most appealing ‐ wonderful colour, very nice design and condition inside and out. It doesn't have the quill box but it does have the strip at the base of the slope which looks original. It is a bit later but I think it would look the best on display (open or closed." oai:catalog.folger.edu:1134282 GLOBAL_SET Purchase made possible by The Richard J. Kuhta Fund for Library Acquisitions. BIB ORDER Vault 01728crm\a22002175i\4500 1134121 20260408154900.0 230721s1770\\\\enk\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\zxx\\ [Pencase incorporating inkwell and quill holder] [realia] England, ca. 1770. 1 item ; 16.75 cm three-dimensional form tdf rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. DFo dispersed 2024-10-30 DJL local DFo Writing equipment. aat Pen cases. aat Great Britain England, publication place. naf The B. F. Saul Rare Book Acquisitions Fund, funder. SaulREF757047 DFo US-DFo 272823 272823 39 x 24 cm From dealer's description: "22. [PENMANSHIP.] [A Georgian penner, in three parts, incorporating inkwell and quill holder.] [England, c.1770.] Penner (length 16.75cm, width at maximum 3.2cm) in three parts, the base housing a glass inkwell, the handle opening to house quills, the whole in blind-stamped leather over card, light wear to extremities, very good. This Georgian penner can be dated to c.1770. Intended for use while travelling, the leather casing slides apart into three sections, housing a glass inkwell in the base and a quill holder in the handle. The blind-stamped leather exterior is decorated simply with ruled hatching and a floral sprig design. Penners of various designs were produced during the early modern era in horn, leather and metal, including examples in silver. A rare survival." Ordered from Samuel Gedge, D9666, 223-07-07, Catalogue XXXIV, item #22 1000138 Purchase made possible by The B. F.Saul Rare Book Acquisitions Fund. oai:catalog.folger.edu:1134121 GLOBAL_SET BIB ORDER Vault