Seal (device)

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A seal is an impression printed on, embossed upon, or affixed to a document (or any other object) in order to authenticate it, in lieu of or in addition to a signature. The word is also used to describe the device used to make this impression. The study of seals is known as sigillography.

  • Seal of Owain Glyndwr

  • Seal of Władysław Jagiełło, king of Poland

  • Seal of Vytautas, Grand Duke of Lithuania

  • Great Seal of Lithuania (1635-1648)

  • English: Seal of Notary Public of Chrzanów in the Grand Duchy of Kraków before 1914
    Polski: Pieczęć notariusza z Chrzanowa w Wlk. Ks. Krakowskim przed 1914

  • Diploma, Geneva, 1974

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