Product Description
King Edward VI.
Court of Augmentation, Great Seal – Reverse – Red.
This is the great seal of King Edward VI of England.
Edward was the one and only son of Henry VIII, his mother was Jane Seymour. He came to the throne at the age of 9, he was a sickly child suffering from tuberculosis. His Uncle the Duke of Somerset was named as his protector and carried out the government tasks by the Council of Regency. Although his reign was short the book of common Prayer was wrote and helped to establish the country as a Protestant nation.
This reproduction is the reverse side and has been taken from a copy that would have been produced directly from an original impression in wax. Preserved for hundreds of years this copy shows the fine detail of the original and makes the perfect addition for any collection.
Each monarch of England would have had their own unique great royal seal. These seals were affixed to documentation to show and prove their authentication and validate that they are genuine in the absence of the monarch themselves. Originally these would have been made from wax and held together a document or scroll by a cord passing through the wax seal.
Our reproductions capture all the fine detail of the original wax casting and are moulded and then hand cast in a resin composite to produce a very accurate and high quality reproduction.
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Approximately 12 cm in diameter and comes with D-Ring to wall mount