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English: Plate VI: Top: Seal of Confederate States; Bottom: Seal of Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore (1637–1715), Left (recto ?): inscribed in Latin: CAROLUS ABSOLUTUS DOMINUS TERRAE MARIAE ET AVALONIAE BARO DE BALTEMOR (Charles, absolute lord of the Land of Mary and of Avalon, Baron of Baltimore". Arms of Calvert quartering Crosland of Crosland Hill, Yorkshire: Quarterly argent and gules, a cross botonée counterchanged (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.247). Avalon (a legendary island featured in Arthurian legend) is the name he gave his unsuccessful colony in Newfoundland, 1621-3. The imagery of a Renaissance mounted knight is apparently deliberately anachronistic. "This seal dates from 1648", per source. (? NB does not match with dates of "Carolus"/Charles Calvert, whose father Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (1605–1675) was still alive in 1648. The name of the first Baron and original grantee was George. Charles had been his father's Deputy Governor since 1661 when he arrived in the colony of Maryland at the age of 24. However, Charles left Maryland for England in 1684 and never returned. (Wikipedia)). The matrices were of silver.There was an earlier one of the same precious metal but it was stolen in 1644. That of 1648 was used till 1692; from then until the Revolution the Province was under royal governors. The Calvert family became extinct in 1771. By law of 1874 the obverse of this Seal was readopted, merely adding the date, 1632, the year in which the charterof Maryland was signed. As the reverse signified the per-sonal authority of the Proprietor it was no longer appro-priate and was discarded (see Plate VI).

Identifier: greatsealsofengl00dana (find matches)
Title: The great seals of England and some others
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Dana, Charles Edmund, 1843- (from old catalog) Pennsylvania museum and school of industrial art, Philadelphia. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Seals (Numismatics)
Publisher: Philadelphia, Printed for the museum
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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(sic) (Charles, absolute lord of the land ofMary and of Avalon, Baron of Baltimore). Avalon is thename he gave his unsuccessful colony in Newfoundland,1621-3. This seal dates from 1648. The matrices were of silver.There was an earlier one of the same precious metal but itwas stolen in 1644. That of 1648 was used till 1692; fromthen until the Revolution the Province was under royalgovernors. The Calvert family became extinct in 1771. By law of 1874 the obverse of this Seal was readopted,merely adding the date, 1632, the year in which the charterof Maryland was signed. As the reverse signified the per-sonal authority of the Proprietor it was no longer appro-priate and was discarded (see Plate VI). PENNSYLVANIA. The Penn Charter (see page 7)instructed William Penn to use his paternal arms (Plate VII)as the State Seal of Pennsylvania; to it he added, as a sort ofmotto, Mercy, Justice. On the reverse, three ears ofcorn, forming a trefoil, and from the same centre, alternating, 44 Plate VI.
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Confederate States, p. 46.Lord Baltimore, p. 44. three sticks entwined with grapevines. Legend; Truth,Peace. Love, and Plenty. 1699. The original arms of the city of Philadelphia (1701)were heraldically, quarterly; first, azure, on a fess argenttwo clasped hands proper. Second, argent, a garb proper(wheat sheaf). Third, argent, the scales of Justice proper.Fourth, azure, a ship in full sail, proper. Legend; Seal ofthe City of Philadelphia, 1701. Proper, means in the natu-ral colors. September 28th, 1776, Messrs. Rittenhouse, Jacobs andClymer were appointed a committee to prepare a Seal. Fromthe arms of Philadelphia,they selected the ship and the wheatsheaf, adding the plough in the middle on a horizontal band(fess), the whole symbolizing commerce, husbandry, agri-culture. This, with trifling changes, has remained ever sincethe Seal of the Commonwealth, and is one of the very bestin the somewhat absurd collection of State Seals with theircrude attempts at symbolism. GEORGIA. The impres

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