electrotype shell, executed in copper, in gutta-percha case which is possibly original
Provenance: The Collection of Joe Matthews and John Shank, Shepherdstown, West Virginia
Note: According to legend, the original Confederate Seal escaped capture by Federal authorities and fell into the hands of Colonel John Pickett, who had a number of copies made in copper, silver and gold plate.
By description, the one being offered here is quite similar to another housed at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_1098697
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The Collection of Joe Matthews and John Shank, Shepherdstown, West Virginia
striation lines in fields, seemingly as madeļ¼ case with loose hinges, some rub to felt interior, one discrete blemish to glass encasement
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