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Renaissance Silver Seal For The Danish Town Of Karteminde. Danish, 16th Century.

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"Renaissance Silver Seal For The Danish Town Of Karteminde. Danish, 16th Century."

A Renaissance period silver seal for the Danish town of Karteminde.

Danish, second half of the 16th century.

The wooden handled silver seal is engraved with the matrix of a ship and the motto ‘Sigil Civitatas Carthamundensis’.

Carthamundensis is now known as the Danish town of Karteminde.

Affectionately nicknamed ‘The Garden by the Sea’, it has a modern day population of around 6,000 people, it is a small harbour town surrounded by farms in central Denmark on the island of Funen.

Measures 7 x 4cm.