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LOT 0298
French Medieval Heraldic Chessman Type Seal Matrix for Guillaume de Sautigny
EARLY 15TH CENTURY A.D.
1 5/8 in. (15 grams, 41 mm).
A bronze chessman-type seal matrix with pierced quatrefoil and pierced lug above with link from the fixing chain; asterisk on the outer edge of the base to align the design; central heraldic heater shield with three stars above a cinquefoil, Lombardic script legend to the border '*DESAVTIGNY * GVILLE' and frond to complete the circle (for Guille[lm] de Sautigny).
ProvenanceThe Matrix Collection, formed by David Morris since the late 1980s.
Ex Hermann Historica, 14 October 2003, lot 319.
Matrix Collection catalogue no.945.
Many of the seals within the collection were published in a book titled 'The Matrix Collection', by David Morris in 2012.
Accompanied by a copy of the illustrated collection notes.
Accompanied a copy of a Hermann Historica auction page print out.
In 1502 a nobleman named Jean Courtin IV, squire and lord of Sautigny, married Catherine Cottereau, daughter of Pierre Cottereau, lord of the viscounty of Vaupréau: see M. de Sait Allais Nobiliaire Universel de France, vol. 6, Paris 1874.
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LOT 0298
French Medieval Heraldic Chessman Type Seal Matrix for Guillaume de Sautigny
Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
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