Image: MasiTreatySealSkippet

Description: A "skippet" for the Masi or Treaty Seal, the variant of the Great Seal of the United States, designed by Seraphim Masi in 1825, and used specifically on treaties for several decades thereafter. The wax seals (attached to the documents via strings) were transported in metal boxes called skippets, such as the one here, which were usually engraved with impression of the seal. The 24 stars in the border probably represent the 24 states in the Union at the time Masi created the die for the skippet. (There were 24 states between 1821 and 1836.)
Title: MasiTreatySealSkippet
Credit: Extracted from PDF version of Using the Great Seal as the Nation Expands poster, part of a U.S. Diplomacy Center (State Department) exhibition on the 225th anniversary of the Great Seal. Direct PDF URL [1] (21MB) Courtesy of the Diplomatic Reception Rooms, U.S. Department of State
Author: U.S. Government
Permission: The U.S. Diplomacy Center exhibition page states All materials in this exhibition are in the public domain and can be reproduced without permission. Citation of this source is appreciated.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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