OTTOMAN WARRIOR’S PERSONAL SEAL, 17th-EARLY 18th CENTURY

Period of Mehmed IV-Suleiman II. Oval bronze, under 5/8” (0.60”) diameter with chiseled cursive Arabic signature in reverse to wax seal documents. Reverse with a contoured post grip, the tip pierced for suspension. Indicative of a noble owner as commoners would seldom endorse documents. From a group of similar seals suggests that they were collected after the Siege of Vienna in 1683 where a massive amount of Ottoman booty was collected.