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<p>[QUOTE="Ex Libris, post: 4409166, member: 14916"]I have a bit of a hard time to find a descent category for this on the forum, so that is why I post it in the general thread.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today a box was delivered with a find I did on the internet. I am not so much interested in the monetary value, but more in the historical value of this find.</p><p><br /></p><p>The box contains 50 reproduced medieval seals, all from the Strasbourg region in France. In the lid of the box and as a loose paper there is a short description of every seal. The casts are made of some kind of resin.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]374103[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]374104[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]374105[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>On the back of the seals is sometimes a name and/or a year.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]374107[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>In the box there also was a letter from 1963 of a man called Charles Haudot to a Mss. Rumeau, adjuct director of the national archives (probably in Paris). The exact content is for me very hard to read, because I don't speak much French. Maybe someone can help me with that.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]374106[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Charles Haudot (1919-2010) was a famous sigillograph (seal expert) from Strasbourg. He worked in the regional archive in Strasbourg and later he founded his own <a href="http://musee-sceau.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://musee-sceau.com/" rel="nofollow">museum</a> in the village La Petit Pierre about seals where he was conservator.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]374108[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Museum about seals</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.visit.alsace/wp-content/uploads/lei/pictures/217006472-musee-du-sceau-alsacien-1-1600x900.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http:// https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/video/caf97511817/le-sigillographe" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http:// https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/video/caf97511817/le-sigillographe" rel="nofollow">Short film of Charles Haudot making seals like this (French language)</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Making the seals</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]374109[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Later today I contacted the seller of the box. She bought it years ago in Paris in an antiqueshop.</p><p><br /></p><p>I love it when I can find so much information about objects![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ex Libris, post: 4409166, member: 14916"]I have a bit of a hard time to find a descent category for this on the forum, so that is why I post it in the general thread. Today a box was delivered with a find I did on the internet. I am not so much interested in the monetary value, but more in the historical value of this find. The box contains 50 reproduced medieval seals, all from the Strasbourg region in France. In the lid of the box and as a loose paper there is a short description of every seal. The casts are made of some kind of resin. [ATTACH=full]374103[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]374104[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]374105[/ATTACH] On the back of the seals is sometimes a name and/or a year. [ATTACH=full]374107[/ATTACH] In the box there also was a letter from 1963 of a man called Charles Haudot to a Mss. Rumeau, adjuct director of the national archives (probably in Paris). The exact content is for me very hard to read, because I don't speak much French. Maybe someone can help me with that. [ATTACH=full]374106[/ATTACH] Charles Haudot (1919-2010) was a famous sigillograph (seal expert) from Strasbourg. He worked in the regional archive in Strasbourg and later he founded his own [URL='http://musee-sceau.com/']museum[/URL] in the village La Petit Pierre about seals where he was conservator. [ATTACH=full]374108[/ATTACH] Museum about seals [IMG]https://www.visit.alsace/wp-content/uploads/lei/pictures/217006472-musee-du-sceau-alsacien-1-1600x900.jpg[/IMG] [URL='http:// https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/video/caf97511817/le-sigillographe']Short film of Charles Haudot making seals like this (French language)[/URL]. Making the seals [ATTACH=full]374109[/ATTACH] Later today I contacted the seller of the box. She bought it years ago in Paris in an antiqueshop. I love it when I can find so much information about objects![/QUOTE]
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