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Seal - Artifacts

Description
In a brown plastic envelope in a blue box: Circular seal says "Wing C. Luke, State of Washington, Notary Public, Commission expires April 7, 1957" A. Metal hand-held press for embossing a seal. It has a horizontal lower part holding the upper and lower plates of the seal. The plates are held directly aligned above and below one another but slightly apart by two strips of metal which extend from each plate and join at their other ends. A handle with a locking function and a textured top is angled above so that when depressed the two plates come together. The lower part of the seal is engraved on one side with " 'Official'/Pocket Seal/Pats. No. 2,077,853- 2,706,448---2,998,766/Others pending" and on the opposit side with "Puget Sound/Stamp Works" in a crest with "Seattle" below. The seal is very shiny, silver metal color. Its seal has "Wing C. Luke, State of Washington" on it, noting him as a notary public, comission expiring April 7, 1957. B. Brown synthetic leather case for the seal. It has light brown trim. It is a soft pouch-like case with a flap at the top with a metal snap. The front of the pouch has a yellow image of a seal press with the phrase "Make it official" above, all encased in a wavy circle. The case measures 4" x 6.5" closed. C. Box for the seal. It is made of stiff cardboard, held together at its edges by metal clips. The lid is attached to the body of the box along one of the long sides; the box, therefore, is made from a single piece of cardboard. The inside of the box is yellow, made from a single piece of cardboard. The inside of the box is yellow-brown in color. The outside is light blue with off-white writing diagonally displaced in a repeated pattern. The writing includes short phrases, a short side of the lid is printed with a swuare reading, "'Official'/Pocket Seal/Model K/Size #1/Die Notary Public State of Washington." Front of the lid, and the bottom also have tape or tape marks on them. An area of the top layer of paper of the cardboard on the bottom also has been torn off, revealing textured, white paper. The box measures 5 5/8" x 3" x 2 1/4". D. White piece of paper, once folded in half. Printed in blue, it has the " 'Official' Seal locking instructios". The paper meausres 4.5" x 5". E. Piece of sticker paper. It is white paper, printed in blue. The paper has 3 rectangular labels to be used for identification labels for the seal. The paper measures 2 1/4" x 2 1/2".
Object ID
1992.035.002