Early 20thC Ebony, Silver & Hardstone Armorial Desk Seal - HARVEY

Seal Detail

A delightful desk seal, of ebony and silver, the handle of slender banded form with flat top, to a tall and heavily decorated silver collar and mount, showing four assay marks and a circular matrix mount within which is a bloodstone cartouche matrix.

The arms are of Harvey impaling Chevallier.  The Harvey arms are quartered and not completely accurate but the crest is correct.  The motto is inscribed:

ALTERI SI (sic) TIBI. 

The arms are probably intended to represent those of Edward Kerrison Harvey (1826-1906) and his wife Emma Susanna, daughter of the Rev. Clement Chevallier.  She died in 1886 and he married secondly in 1896, Sophia Beevor.  The silver mounts on the sela are hallmarked for Saunders & Shepherd, Birmingham, 1901/2.  It seems bizarre to have a seal made for a marriage which no longer existed at that date.

The seal is presented in excellent condition. 

Seal Specification

Height mm

Diameter of matrix  mm 

Weight 21g