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English: Drawing of the imprint made by the 1782 (original) die of the Great Seal of the United States.
Date Original seal 1782, drawing from 1892
Source Copied from Google Books version of the illustration facing page 26 in Gaillard Hunt's The Seal of the United States: How it was Developed and Adopted, 1892.
Author Illustration made by Walter Manton (1832? – October 22, 1895), an employee in the State Department.

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