A RED WAX SEAL
Northern India, 1290 AH (1873)

An oval wax seal in bright red, stamped in Persian nasta’liq script 'Nawwab Mohammad Abd ul Wasi Khan, the deputy chief of Rajgah' and a half line of poetry forming the abjad date 1290, the seal attached by twisted string to a drawstring purse of magenta silk brocaded with stylised buti, hand inscription in English on the reverse, the seal 5.8cm x 8.3cm, the purse 25cm x 11.5cm.