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Seal, excavated from the wreck site of the BATAVIA
pre 1629
Australian National Maritime Museum
Sydney, Australia
This seal is one of several thousand objects recovered from the wreck of the BATAVIA, a Dutch vessel wrecked off the Western Australian coast in 1629. The object is attached to a document, usually in addition to a signature, as a guarantee of authenticity.
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- Title: Seal, excavated from the wreck site of the BATAVIA
- Date: pre 1629
- Location: Nederland
- Type: Seal
- Significance: This seal represents the BATAVIA wreck and early European presence near the Australian continent.
- See institution's online collections: http://www.anmm.gov.au/collections
- Medium: Lead
- Dimensions: 30 mm, 0.007 kg
- Credit line: ANMM Collection Transferred from Australian Netherlands Committee on Old Dutch Shipwrecks
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