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Early 19thC Newcastle Atholl Lodge Masonic Desk Wax Seal

Seal Detail

[See page 80-81 of The Matrix Collection - A Collection of British Seals]

The baluster wooden handle, to a silver circular matrix engraved:

SEAL OF THE ATHOLL LODGE No 131 NEWCASTLE 

to the border, with masonic iconography to the centre, the reverse engraved:

"Presented to the Atholl Lodge by Br Thom Wilson 15. April 1811"

In 1772, the Duke of Atholl was installed Grand Master of the "most ancient honourable fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons", in presence of the Masters of the Grand Lodges of Scotland and Ireland.

Offered in superb original condition.

Seal Specification

Height 90mm

Diameter of matrix  41mm 

Weight 100g