Context (Display)
This object was found with a wooden display board. A handwritten label affixed to the front of the board reads: '83.CAS.598. Fob chain steel seal ?Cambridge. Cam. Ant. Soc. 1883.' Also written in pencil on the back of the board: 'CAS. d3. ?Cambridge.'
Event Date
Author: David Kay

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: 'SEAL (fob) steel (impd. helmeted head with ornate brass [sic] loop etc.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
See 'Report on Collections Research and Cataloguing Project on Post Medieval 'To Be Disposed Of' Material' by David Kay in the archive (Doc.474) for background information.
Event Date 2019
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Found together / assemblage)
Found in a cardboard box containing twelve objects (1883.598 A, 1903.201, 1908.439 A, 1922.205, 1922.206, 1923.213.11, 1923.256.5, TEMP.00866, TEMP.00867, TEMP.00868, TEMP.00877, TEMP.00878) and marked 'Watch fobs, keys etc. Pedometers'.
Event Date 2019
Author: David Kay

Description (Physical description)
Watch fob seal, with an ornately scrolled openwork suspension loop surmounting a revolving oval intaglio seal, one side of which bears a portrait cameo of a man wearing an open-faced helmet, and the other the seated figure of Britannia holding her spear and shield.
Event Date 28/3/2019
Author: David Kay