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Three personal seals for sealing wax, Italy, beginning of 17th and beginning of 18th century.
Description:Three seals, from the collection of the D'Alessandro family (Ascoli Satriano, province of Foggia):
a) A seal with a Protonotary Apostolic (Sylv. Santorellus Prot. Apost.) engraved coat of arms. The olive wood handle is contemporary to the seal. Late seventeenth-early eighteenth century.
Length. cm. 14.
In the Roman Catholic Church, Protonotary Apostolic (Latin protonotarius apostolicus) is the title for a member of the highest non-episcopal college of prelates in the Roman Curia or, outside of Rome, an honorary prelate on whom the pope has conferred this title and its special privileges.
The emblem of our seal consists of a column with two ribbons fluttering and, on its top, three stars. The Protonotario hat, above the coat of arms, has twelve strings and bows, six on each side. A cherub head is engraved between the coat and the hat.
b) A Seal with an engraved Monogram (GDA) and 'Arcipretura d'Ascoli'. It has a horn handle. Second quarter of the nineteenth century.
Length. cm. 9.3.
It belonged to Giuseppe Maria d'Alessandro (1799-1848), of one branch of the dukes d'Alessandro, a patrician family from Naples. Giuseppe d'Alessandro became theologian in 1828 and bishop of Sessa Aurunca in 1843.
c) A seal with engraved coat of arms and a woodden handle. Second quarter of the nineteenth century.
Length. cm. 8.
The coat of arms could be either of Granza of Molfetta or of Della Scala.
Age:biginning 17th and 19th century
Dimensions:different sizes
Price: Sold
Item n°: RC 149-150-151
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