Long time no post, here's a few seal matrixes recently found...

[Bavaria Mike]

Hi all! Been really busy around here lately, renovated a room, mother visiting from Ohio and I

 

[Beale]

Cingrats on those great seals! I really like them, Beale.

 

[RickIowa2009]

Those are some interesting finds

 

[wayne(mj)]

Great finds Mike. How common was it to have a seal or was it common at all. How hard is it to try a trace a seal like the one with the initals in it. I know nothing about seals, do you think they are low class seals or high class seals. It would be interesting to know if a person could link a good seal to someone's family from the past. Just courious. Wayne.

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Only the wealthy and business type people had them. Trying to trace a seal is a bit hard. The local archives only go back to the early to mid 1800s, the rest are in an archive about an hours drive away. The other problem I have is, the German written language changed sometime in the late 1800s. The old style is full of wild looking letters unlike the more legible letters of today, I can hardly read the old style. I did trace one seal from the late 1800s to a businessman in a nearby town, more research showed the man was probably Jewish and murdered by Nazi doctors between 1939 and 1948. HH, Mike

 

[wayne(mj)]

Thanks Mike , you answered everything and plus. I just imagine how hard it would be with the language and all , again nice finds and thanks. Wayne