Yale Center for British Art

Title:
Album of wax seals.
Published / Created:
Great Britain, 1832-1835.
Physical Description:
1 volume (40 pages) ; 28 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
CD5883 .A43 1835+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Archives & Manuscripts
Notes:
Title supplied by cataloger.

Bound in quarter red morocco with marbled paper covers.

The album includes several hundred wax seals, signatures, and fragments of addressed envelopes, all pasted in. The compiler of the album is unidentified, but there is frequent appearance of the name of Captain Thomas Turner Alkin (1774-1846), of Hunton Court Lodge, Maidstone.
Subject Terms:
Alkin, Thomas Turner, 1774–1846. | Seals (Numismatics) | Heraldry.
Form/Genre:
Seals (marks)
Contributors:
Alkin, Thomas Turner, 1774–1846.