But it is really a very beautiful specimen, done at a time when the art of seal-engraving was at its height.

No engraver could to-day turn out a more ornate and at the same time bold design.

Moyes is really very fortunate in securing this.

You must write, my dear, and ask him how these latest treasures came into his hands." At his request she got down another of the ponderous volumes of Sassolini from the high shelf, and read to him, translating from the Italian the brief notice of the ancient church of Dulcigno, which, it appeared, had been built in the Lombard-Norman style of the eleventh century, while the campanile, with columns from Paestum, dated from 1276.
The third seal, the circular one, was larger than the rest, being quite two inches across.

In the centre of the top half was the Madonna with Child, seated, a male and female figure on either side.