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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 6286729, member: 5833&quot;]I think this desk seal is genuinely antique at this point, but faux in other ways.&nbsp; It&#039;s easy to see now that the fittings were once meant to look like gold but are clearly not.&nbsp; The handle I think was meant to look like lapis - not sure sodalite was much in use as a gemstone at the time - but suspect it is actually porcelain.&nbsp; The matrix, the working part of the seal, is meant look like nicolo: sardonyx that has had the dark layer dyed black &amp; the white layer ground to be thin enough for the black to show, giving that bluish appearance.&nbsp; However, it think the intaglio is glass.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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