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

text: Marx Warmerdam

collection: 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

text: Marx Warmerdam,

collection: delta 98 den haag

sold to a collection in the US

 

antique wax seal: little girl, big cat & dachshund

a charming wax seal,

the handle depicting a

little girl with big cat and dog

some illustrations of other little girls with their pets

 

text: Marx Warmerdam,

collection: delta 98 den haag