art deco wax seal by Jan Eisenloeffel, coat of arms of family Van der Willige von Schmidt auf Altenstadt

I can start with the coat of arms of the family 

Van der Willige von Schmidt auf Altenstadt 

or with the wax seal designed by Jan Eisenloeffel, 

but at this moment I prefer a typical Dutch landscape:

the polder in Holland, how it looks like for hundreds of years,

with willows along the waterways, ditches and canals

willows should be cut every second or third year, 

the branches can be used to make 

baskets, walls, fences, seatings on chairs, etc.

De Wilgen, a 1918 poem by 

C.S. Adama van Scheltema on willows ends with:

Toen kwam de boerenkapper aan

Die had een lange schaar

En knipte met een grooten hap

Zoo maar op eenmaal: knip-knip-kap

Door al dat wilgenhaar!

Translated as:

Then the farmer's hairdresser arrived

He had long scissors

And snapped with a big bite

Just like that: cut-cut-snap

Through all that willow hair!

The name Van der Willige refers to WILGEN, dutch for willows.

For the family name other ways of writing are documented as:

Willige, Willigue, Willich, Wilg, Villich and Willigen

And now the wax seal and it's designer.

The designer Jan / Johannes Wigbold Eisenloeffel (1876-1957)

is famous and his work is represented in museum collections,

we have a few objects designed by him, 

for example a brooche, brass ware and glasses

The wax seal with coat of arms is made of bronze or brass 

with on the top a typical Eisenloeffel enameled geometric decor,

the matrix with the coat of arms of the family

Von Schmidt auf Altenstadt 

and/or

Van der Willige von Schmidt auf Altenstadt

The calm of the willows in the dutch polder

makes place for a complex research on the family.

The family line starts with the name 

Fabrice / Fabricius

in the 16th Century

with from 1564 the granted nobility for Johann Fabricius 

from the estate in Altenstadt, Phalz,

in 1577 3 sons called themselves

Fabricius auf Altenstadt,

one of them, Wolfgang, altered his name into 

Von Schmidt auf Altenstadt,

a circa 1750 stone ornament at the castle

Schloss Dallwitz, Priestewitz

with the coat of arms of 

Johann Georg von Schmidt auf Altenstadt 

and his spouce 

Margareta Klara Sichart von Sichartshof:

in 1839 the Dutch nobility was granted,

Johann Pieter / Peter Von Schmidt auf Altenstadt (1812-1880) 

added his mother's name 

Van der Willige, 

and so his branche became:

Van der Willige von Schmidt auf Altenstadt

and there is more:

Time to get back to the calm with a wilgentenen mand

the Von Schmidt auf Altenstadt wax seal 

by Jan Eisenloeffel is for sale at:

Delta 98 Den Haag

antique wax seal with coat of arms of the family Bose

a silver wax seal with the coat of arms of the family Bose

with motto:

Idem Non Eodem 

meaning: the same, not comparable

family members:

George Bose, married to Helene Catharina Werndly,

they had a son and a daughter:

George Maurits Bose (1750-1776), who died unmarried,

Jacomina Wendelina Bose, who married Christiaan Zurhosen

Helena Catharine Werndly died on board of a ship to England

documented at Nationaal Archief

VOC opvarenden 1699-1794

George Maurits Bose (1750-1776) 

worked as a sailor for the VOC - kamer Rotterdam,

on the ship DEN TEMPEL

the ship might have been named after the master shipbuilder:

Salomon Jansz. van den Tempel

a VOC ship

Jacomine Wendeline and Christiaan Zurhosen had one child:

Christine Helena

the will of Jacomine Wendeline Bose is 

at the National Archives in Kew, London:

Christine Helena Zurhosen married in 1787 with 

Huibert Elisa van Meerten (1758-1827), 

she died two years later, without childeren, 

the Zurhosen graves on row X, no. 12 and 13

Kloosterkerk in The Hague,

the burial place of 

Christine Helena Zurhosen

Huibert Elisa van Meerten

married again in 1791 with 

Dionysia Catharina van Bleijswijk, 

they had eight childeren together

the Bose seal is sold by 

Delta 98 Den Haag,

 to a collection in the US

 

antique wax seal: little girl, big cat & dachshund

for sale, from the wax seal collection of

Delta 98 Den Haag

a charming wax seal,

the handle depicting a

little girl with big cat and dog

some illustrations of other little girls with their pets

 

a coat of arms with ostrich feathers on a antique wax seal stamp - een zegelstempel met struisveren op een familiewapen

 in the Delta 98 Den Haag collection:

an antique wax seal stamp with a coat of arms of a 1600-1750 era design, with on the shield / escutcheon and as crest

three ostrich feathers 

the ostrich feather is an important heraldic symbol due to it's occurence in the heraldic devices of the English Royal family since the time of Edward the 3rd (1312-1377), it symbolised faithfulness, magnanimity, generosity and justice

we relate this seal and coat of arms to the Dutch family

Geesteranus

with a coat of arms of three ostrich feathers emerging from a pot, a family name that, after becoming extinct, went on in the name

Maas Geesteranus 

possible other ways of writing, or documented:

Geisteranus, Gheisteranus, Geesteren

but if the "pot" with two handles and standing on three legs is not a pot, kettle or vase, it might be a crown encirceld with, or surmounted by three ostrich feathers, especialy known as the royal badge of the Prince of Wales, a symbol going back to Medieval times, to the battle fields of Europe, to king Edward III's oldest son, Edward the Black Prince (1330-1376)

and to John of Bohemia / Jean de Boheme et de Luxembourg,

or to Edward's mother, from the family Hainault / Hainaut, the counts of Ostrevant, who married into the Tudor family :

and it can also be found with the coat of arms of the family De Medici :

 

According to the longstanding but now discredited legend, the Black Prince obtained the badge from the blind John I of Bohemia, against whom he fought at the Battle of Crécy in 1346. After the battle, the prince is said to have gone to the body of the dead king, and taken his helmet with its ostrich feather crest, afterwards incorporating the feathers into his arms, and adopting King John’s motto, “Ich Diene”, as his own. The story first appears in writing in 1376, the year of the Black Prince’s death. There is, however, no sound historical basis for it, and no evidence for King John having used either the crest (he actually bore a crest of vultures’ wings) or the motto.

Since a key factor in the English army’s victory at Crécy was the use of Welsh archers, it is also sometimes said to have been Edward’s pride in the men of Wales which led him to adopt a symbol alluding to their assistance. The German motto “Ich Dien” (“I serve”) is a near-homophone for the Welsh phrase “Eich Dyn” meaning “Your Man”, which might have helped endear the young Black Prince to the Welsh soldiers in particular. Again, however, there is no historical evidence to support this theory

 

we’ll stick to the Geesteranus origin...

19th Century wax seals from Dutch noble families: Klerck and De Jong van Beek en Donk, new in the Delta 98 Den Haag collection

 

Klerck:

- here shown with horizontal flip -

an antique, 19th Century wax seal with the coat of arms of 

Klerck,

motto: Fidelis Regi Patriaeque

- faithful to king and country / trouw aan koning en vaderland -

Jhr. Reinhold Anthonie Klerck

the family name Klerck derives from the 16th Century family name Clerck, 

they are from Rhenen, Wageningen and Utrecht.

Dutch nobility was granted in 1831 to 

Reinhold Anthonie Klerck (1774-1854)

also written as: Reinholt, Rijnold, Reinold, Rijnholt - Antonie, Antonie Klerck

description: argent / silver, two keys of sable / black, set in saltire, the bitts up and backed, a noble crown and helmet, as crest the keys between a flight

- in zilver twee afgewende, schuingekruiste sleutels, rangkroon jonkheer, aanziende helm, de sleutels van het schild tussen een open vlucht -

De Jong van Beek en Donk:

an antique, 19th Century wax seal with the coat of arms of 

De Jong van Beek en Donk

with the crown for Dutch nobilty, granted in 1831 to 

Johannes / Johan de Jong van Beek en Donk

- here shown with horizontal flip -

Since Gisbert / Gijsbert de Jong in 1745, the home of the 

family De Jong van Beek en Donk in Noord-Brabant, 

The Netherlands:

Kasteel Eyckenlust - Eijckenlust - Eikenlust

with the gate building dating from circa 1500:

Beek en Donk on old charts:

in the middle "Kasteel" for the castle Eyckenlust:

collection

Delta 98 Den Haag,

The Hague, The Netherlands

Some antique wax seals recently sold by Delta 98 Den Haag

 antique wax seal stamps,

provenance and research by 

Delta 98 Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands,

now in private USA collections

antique, 19th century lacquer seal, with the coat of arms of the family

Zweerts

on the shield: horizontal lining for a blue / azure field, two swords upwards and crossing, one sword pointing downwards over the middle of it all

on the 2nd picture you can see the shield of Jan Bruno Zweerts, one of the trustee’s escutcheons of the old civil orphanage of Amsterdam:

Wapenbord Regenten Burgerweeshuis, date: 1716

an antique 19th century wax seal stamp, fully made of carved carnelian agate, also the stamp part, with the coat of arms of the Dutch family

De Man, related to Nolthenius De Man 

Nolthenius, being mothers name, was added to the family name at a later date,

the coat of arms show a shield with: a crowned, demi lion naissant and rampant, crowned, with tongue, tail forked - even double tail, with nailed claws, barred halmet with crown and pearls - the crest the lion as on the shield 

in Vorsterman van Oijen you can find the coat of arms pictured, with added text about the crown and colouring:

"de leeuw in het schild en op het helmteken behooren gekroond te zijn van goud"

De Man and Nolthenius branches: 

 

ANTHONY WILLEM HENDRIK DE MAN, born 18 Jan. 1793, died ‘s-Gravenhage 18 Oct. 1842, luitenant-kolonel van den Generalen Staf, lid der Kon. Academie van beeldende Kunsten, huwt 10 Maart 1824 te Gent EUGENIA COLETTA THERESIA VAN DE WALLE, vr, geboren 27 Febr. 1804 te Gent, overleden 27 Maart 1890 te Breda, dochter van Emanuel Philippe Pierre van de Walle en Maria Theresia Boschaerts. Verkrijgt 18 Nov. 1823 vergunning den naam NOLTHENIUS DE MAN te voeren, mits daarvan eerst een jaar later gebruik makende.

see: RKD.nl

serving as engineer officers of the new Dutch army from 1813-1815, were

Anton Willem Hendrik Nolthenius de Man, died: The Hague (NL), 18 October 1842 - 2nd Lieutenant: April 1813 -  1st Lieutenant: 1 December 1814 (Netherlands army), Transferred to General Staff 12 April 1816.

Maximiliaan Jacob de Man, Born: 26 June 1765 - Honourable Discharge: 1795 (Batavian Army)                      Died: Grave (NL), 17 June 1838 - 2nd Lieutenant: 22 May 1782 - 1st Lieutenant: 24 April 1789 - Captain: 17 March 1794 - Lieutenant-Colonel: 1 March 1807 - Colonel: 11 June 1814 -  Major-General: 24 November 1816 - Lieutenant-General: 13 February 1834 - MWO: 3rd Class Knight 8 July 1815 (for former services) - No military service 12 March 1796 – 1 May 1807