Did POTUS pick the same seal as what's thought to be the first seal of the United States?
The Dorsett Seal Die surfaced in 1894
Other dies identical to the Dorsett Seal die that may have belonged to George Washington
Tentatively called the Pierce Seal die because it was discovered by John Pierce (in Rhode Island), this engraved metallic die is identical to the Dorsett Seal die now in the collection at Mount Vernon, George Washington's home. Evidence suggests that America's first president owned the Dorsett Seal die (story below).
One day in early June 1894 a young man named Palemon Howard Dorsett presented himself at the Department of State and sought out Gaillard Hunt, who recently wrote a brochure titled The Seal of the United States. Dorsett showed Hunt a metal die incised with the arms of the United States that had been handed down in his family from a kinsman who had received it from a nephew of George Washington.
Hunt examined the die and noted: "This seal is almost identical with the first seal, cut in 1782… It is cut on the same metal and no other seal is as much like the first seal… It is fair to presume that this seal is contemporaneous with the seal of 1782."
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