an 18th Century wax seal stamp, the handle made of ivory
with the arms of alliance of a male member of the family
Sythoff
- Sijthoff - Sythoff - Cythoff - Zijdhoff -
the male shield shows a crowned snake / serpent
between twigs and on each side a fleur de lis,
the oval, female shield shows a double headed eagle
in the 19th Century the name Sijthoff became:
Von Barnau Sijthoff
because of a marriage of
Frederik Willem Sijthoff with Pauline Henriette Bekking, daughter of
Frederika Sophia Wilhelmina Von Barnau
in Dutch: het familiewapen van het geslacht / familie Sijthoff / Sythoff sinds de 18de eeuw bekend met het wapen:
in blauw twee gekruiste takken en een slang, vergezeld van lelies:
also documented as following at the CBG The Hague:
there are many coat of arms with the double-headed eagle,
only recently we have found a marriage between:
Johannes Sijthoff (1767-1810) and
Sara Johanna Cornelia Bresler (born 1775)
they married in 1793
at the CBG-in The Hague you now can read the Muschart collection cards,
and we found this one for Bresler, mentioning the double headed eagle as: dubbele adelaar (double eagle) and the marriage between Sijthoff and Bresler
and then we found on the internet:
Johannes died in 1810, Sara married again in 1815 with
Sixtus Augustinus Faber (1764-1827)
So if the double eagle of Muschart is the same as a what now is the common description: doubleheaded eagle / dubbelkoppige adelaar
then we have a match,
and it is indeed a 18th Century wax seal, but only just...
in the magazine GEN 2022-01 of the CBG Den Haag you can find an article by Guus van Breugel about the family, titled: Zegelring in Boca Slagbaai
one of the pages of the article:
on the picture Lambertus Sijthoff (1731-1808), the father of Johannes
text:
Marx Warmerdam,
Delta 98 Den Haag
december 2023.
