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Lot 358
Sale 5205 - American Furniture & Decorative Arts
Nov 22, 2008
5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$30,000 -
50,000
Price Realized
$23,000
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Carved pine Seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts last quarter 19th century
Carved with the figure of an Indian dressed in a shirt, leggings and moccasins, holding a bow in one hand and an arrow in the other, with the Latin motto 'Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem,' (By the sword we seek peace but peace only under Liberty) inscribed in the bannerette.
H: 69 in. W: 71 in.