Known and back to the family Verloop

this antique wax seal found it's way back to 

a descendant of the family

Verloop

the matrix shows a lovely coat of arms

with a shield per fess,

with a carpenters square and a running horse,

the supporters are winged angels,

holding the shield with one hand and a palm branch in the other,

they stand with their weight on one leg

for a nice and extensive document about the family history,

written by A. Verloop from Kirkland, USA,

search with:

Genealogie van het geslacht Verloop, Verloop Voorouders

it is written in Dutch, but there are many illustrations, 

also of other known Verloop crests

sold by 

Delta 98 Den Haag,

The Hague, The Netherlands

Unknown: from a coat of arms with a tree and a sun or aureole, to Ovidius and Shakespeare

this coat of arms is in the Baroque style, 
for the 17th and early 18th century

on the oval shield we see: in argent - silver a tree fructed,
a tree in full leaf, 

with a magnifier we can see it's 
bearing three round fruits, each with a cross,

above the tree is a female, she has breasts,
she is surrounded with rays of light; 
a nimbus, mandorla or aureole,

above the shield is a crown with nine pearls,
and beneath the shield a skull

the crosses, one vertical and one horizontal line, on the fruits is the 
heraldic hatching for the colour sable / black,
a tree with black fruit is a mulberry tree.

I did not find a coat of arms or crest like this...

And that's when my fantasy is allowed to take over: 

a lady is glorius, but dead, 
a skull on the ground, meaning an other person died,
all happening near a mulberry tree.

That brings me to Ovid. 
Publius Ovidius Naso wrote in 43 BC, his
Metamorphoses IV:55-166, the story of Pyramus and Thisbe.

"and you, tree who now covers a single miserable corpse and soon will cover two, retain the memory of our deaths and always bear fruit dark with the colors of mourning, the markins of our mingled blood"

In 1595, William Shakespeare was inspired by Ovid's couple and wrote
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet 
and in 1600, A Midsummer Night's Dream.
"and Thisby, tarrying in mulberry shade, his dagger drew and died"

In 1957, Arthur Laurents, Stephen Soundheim and Leonard Bernstein
created the West Side Story with Maria and Tony, with a same, sad ending:

"... make our lives one life, day after day, one life.
Now it begins, now we start: one hand, one heart.
Even death won't part us now...
When love comes so strong, there is no right or wrong...

the wax seal is sold by
Delta 98 Den Haag,
The Hague, The Netherlands

Known: wax seal with the coat of arms of Barons Forbes - Grace my Guide

"Let thy word be my rule, thy grace my guide"

Grace My Guide,

used as motto by the Forbes clan in Scotland.

From there, at Forbes Castle, Aberdeenshire,

the earlier, old castle called Putachie in the parish of Keig

to a 19th century tailor or kiltmaker in the village New Deer, 

a town also known as Achadh Reite or Auchreddie

or to Jane Forbes, who was arrested in 1905 for larceny

or to here, in New York,

Forbes descendants can be everywhere,

but they come from a long time ago:

this armorial stone was found in

the Auld Tour / Preston's Tower of Tolquhon Castle

and is one of the first pieces of mediëval heraldic sculpture 

remaining in the north of Scotland

an antique wax seal with a coat of arms and the text:

Barons Forbes - Grace my Guide,

supposed time of use 1734-1804,

probably belonged to:

James 16th Lord Forbes (1724-1804)

who married in 1760 with

Catherine, daughter of Sir Robert Innes of Orton

sold by Delta 98 Den Haag to a

Forbes descendant in the USA

Known: wax seal stamp with coat of arms Van der Wijck & De Vos van Steenwijk

an antique wax seal stamp with a martial coat of arms of

Van der Wijck & De Vos van Steenwijk

although we believe this is an 18th century object, 

we only could find a mariage in 1831, between a 

male Van de Wijck and a female De Vos van Steenwijk:

Haro jonkheer Van der Wijck 

(1798-1844)

and

Rolina / Roelina Gijsbertha Gerdina barones De Vos van Steenwijk
 (1801-1866)

other ways of writing these family names:

Van de Wijck, Wijk, Wyck, Wyk

De Vos van Steenwijck, Steenwijc, Steenwijc, Steenwyck, Steenwyk, 

Steenwic, Steenwich, Steenwije, dictus Vos, Voss

relations and residences:

tot Ansen, tot Havixhorst en Hogenhof, tot Nijerwal, van Utenhove, Goddard, Van Haersolte, van Toutenburg, van Essen tot Windesheim, 
van Dikninge,Dickninge, Dickenynghe, De Klencke

Dutch description terms: 

lakstempel met alliantiewapen, familiewapen

Van der Wijck & De Vos van Steenwijk,

in blauw / azuur twee gekruiste leliestaken, Lilienstaben, batons de fleur de lis met dwarsbalk van rood / keel

in blauw een hartschild met schuinbalken of in zilver schuinbalken met zoom beladen met acht schijfjes / bollen / koeken / bezanten en een uitkomende adelaar

Jhr. Mr. Haro Van der Wyck, raadsheer gerechtshof te Assen, geboren 11-06-1798 te Oosterhesselen, Huis De Klencke, gedoopt 17-06-1798 aldaar, overleden 29-08-1844 te Assen, zoon van Jhr. Mr. Derck van der Wyck, Heer van Klencke en Martina Theodora Agatha des H.R. rijksbarones Von Inn- und Kniphausen. 
Gehuwd 08-04-1831 te De Wijk met Rolina Gijsbertha Gerdina bss De Vos van Steenwijk tot den Havixhorst, geboren 05-09-1801 te De Wijk, Havezathe De Havixhorst, gedoopt 13-09-1801 aldaar, overleden 05-04-1866 te Assen, dochter van Mr. Godert Willem baron De Vos van Steenwijk, drost van Drenthe en Jvr. Andrea van Holthe tot Echten. 


This wax seal stamp is for sale at 

Delta 98 Den Haag, 

The Hague, The Netherlands

Known: Van Overveldt, with the hare rear-ragardant

18th century wax seal with the coat of arms of a lady 

Van Overveldt / Overvelt / Overveld

you see quarterly 

I and IV a hare on grass ground, 

running / passant and looking backwards / rear-regardant

and 

II and III a standing lion / statant

more common is the image with a hare running and not rear-regardant

but at the CGB, the Dutch institute for genealogy and family history

one with a rear-regardant hare 

is documented with 

regstration code HLAKNL003059, 

collection number 1802 and 

afbeelding / picture Overveldt01:

in Dutch: een ruitschild, met familiewapen, gevierendeeld, I en IV een lopende haas op grasgrond, gedocumenteerd als alles van natuurlijke kleur, hier een haas gaand en omziend / met omgewende kop, in II en III een staande leeuw, gedocumenteerd als in goud een groene leeuw, rood getongd en genageld 

for sale at Delta 98 Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands

Known: Van Alderwerelt, a 1788 document and wax seals

wax seal stamp with the coat of arms of / 

lakstempel met het familiewapen van

De Roo Van Alderwerelt

Willem Pieter De Roo Van Alderwerelt (1765 Delft - 1837 Brielle),

son of Joan Carel Van Alderwerelt (1726-1791) and

Alida Anna De Roo Van Roosenburg (1725-1785)

added his mothers name De Roo to his familyname Van Alderwerelt

in 1788, at the age of 23, he payed 18 Dutch guilders 

for a declaration of majority and received this parchment document of 

De Staaten van Holland en Westvriesland; a 

Venia AEtatis

signed by Mr. Laurens Pieter van de Spiegel - raadspensionaris van Zeeland,

Caspar Clotterbooke - Secretaris van de Staten van Holland, and Adr. Huygens

a large wax seal, the Sigillum Ordinum Hollandiae made it complete

- Grootzegel van de Staaten van Holland en West Friesland -

other Alderwerelt lacquer seals:

f.e. of Jean Constantijn Van Alderwerelt (1748-1825)

- the above wax seal stamp is sold to an USA collection -

some family lines: 

Van Alderwerelt Houttuijn, Van Alderwerelt Van Roosenburgh, 

Heeneman, Lochman van Konigsfeldt, Van Winsheym, 

Redemagni, Von Freijtag Van Overstraten

these antique wax seals are for sale at 

Delta 98 Den Haag

the document is sold

Unknown or... Drooglever - de Bie

an 18th century wax seal stamp

with a confusing coat of arms

we think it might have belonged to a person with relationship to two families

Drooglever and De Bie

also written as or changed into

Droogleever, Drooglever Fortuyn, De Bije

the coat of arms we see here:

in silver an embattled black / sable fess 

with on it a lion passant, between seven bees (4 and 3)

we found two occassions where the two families are mentioned together:

in 1739, the marriage of Paulus GerritZn Drooglever & Petronella De Bie,

see: Parenteel van Ambrosius De Bije, go to no.159 to find them and their children

and

in 1770, the built of Het Hofje Van Mevrouw Van Aarden / Aerden

 in Leerdam, The Netherlands

Hofjes or Almshouses in Holland were managed by a board of members called Regenten,

Paulus Drooglever and Huibert De Bie were Regenten of that hofje,

their coat of arms are present in the building since 1770-1772

terms in Dutch: in zilver een beurtelings / gekanteelde en tegengekanteelde dwarsbalk van zwart / sabel, beladen met een gaande leeuw, vergezeld van zeven bijen, 4 in het schildhoofd, 3 in de schildpunt, als helmteken een gesloten vlucht met ernaast een onduidelijk voorwerp

Paulus Drooglever

Huibert De Bie

the coat of arms of / familiewapen van

Drooglever Fortuyn 

the wax seal stamp is sold to a US collection

by Delta 98 Den Haag,

The Hague, The Netherlands