THREE GEORGIAN GOLD-CASED SEALS, CIRCA 1820/30 two seals with foliate shell decoration, one later set with an oval intaglio agate carved with the arms of Edward Haughey, Baron Ballyedmond (1944-2014), the other with a steel matrix with a probably Continental coat of arms, the third with an oblong carnelian with the scrolled initials FH below a crest, with fluted openwork supports below the terminal, all on two foliate scroll gold-cased split rings (5)

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