Excerpt from The Great Seals of England and Some Others
All the Seals exhibited in the Museum of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art having a glazed surface, which is produced by a sulphur solution, were obtained by the writer from the French Government, and are copies of those in the National Archives, in Paris. That collection, numbering more than fifty thousand specimens, is unique; no other is so systematically arranged, thereby enabling the student to devote his time solely to the class he is most interested in for the moment, be it Royal Seals, French or foreign, those of the great Feudatories, Ecclesiastical, Municipal or other, each class being displayed by itself and fairly well labeled.
The "Archives Nationales" are housed in the superb palace of the Princes of Rohan-Soubise, in the "Marais," once the aristocratic quarter of Paris, even yet the most interesting to the historian and the antiquary. There is no other "Hotel" in Paris comparable to it. The great entrance court forms a statelier approach than that of any royal palace in this city of palaces. The grand stairway and state apartments, practically intact, give one a very fair idea of the regal splendor formerly existing in the homes of the great French nobles.
The limited size of this Hand-Book forced me to omit many interesting and amusing adventures of the English Great Seals. The names of some of the many authorities to whom I am indebted will be found at the end of the volume.
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