Hand Engraved Persian seal, fine metal craftsmanship from the very early 1900s, originally on a small wooden shaft for stamping on the wax seals of documents or letters, here used in a unique ring handmade for it in Sydney in solid 9ct Gold.
These Persian seals in earlier times were worked from Cornelian.; working them in “white metal” began only in the early 1900s when northern European laboratories created a durable “white metal” that stayed white and did not discolour; the mix of zinc, aluminum, manganese and copper proved to result in the very best “white metal”.