A SCOTT-TOLLEMACHE FAMILY DESK SEAL A MID / LATE 19TH-CENTURY SILVER-GILT DESK SEAL

A SCOTT-TOLLEMACHE FAMILY DESK SEAL A MID / LATE 19TH-CENTURY SILVER-GILT DESK SEAL the flared cast handle with high-relief depictions of soldiers in battle with a rope twist border, the circular matrix engraved with the arms of Scott impaling TollemacheDimensions:Length: 77mm, matrix diameter: 20mmProvenance:Provenance:Matrix: A Collection of British Seals - David Morris 2012 - Seal 28, page 72Note: Note:The seal was made for Charles Norman Lindsay Tollemache Scott, JP for the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright and JP for LeicestershireBorn in 1853, the eldest son of John Lindsay Scott of Mollance, he married in 1882, Lady Agnes Tollemache, daughter of the 8th Earl of Dysart. Their only daughter, Wenefryde Agatha succeeded her uncle, the 9th Earl of Dysart as Countess Dysart in her own right in 1935, it being a Scottish title and heritable in females. The baronetcy and the entailed estates went to a cousin, Sir Lyonel Tollemache.