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A further fifteen years went by and in April 1769 it was mooted that a common seal be provided: "the Device Gules, a Lamp Or, the Inscription Soc. Antiquar. Lond. Exurge, Non Extinguetur". It would thus seem that the Council had finally determined that the seal and the shield of arms should be identical. More delay occurred, the idea of the lamp was rejected, but finally, in June 1770, Thomas Pingo engraved a seal with the cross and crown, and for the crest an antique Roman lamp based on the one Dr Stukeley has exhibited all of fifty three years earlier. | A further fifteen years went by and in April 1769 it was mooted that a common seal be provided: "the Device Gules, a Lamp Or, the Inscription Soc. Antiquar. Lond. Exurge, Non Extinguetur". It would thus seem that the Council had finally determined that the seal and the shield of arms should be identical. More delay occurred, the idea of the lamp was rejected, but finally, in June 1770, Thomas Pingo engraved a seal with the cross and crown, and for the crest an antique Roman lamp based on the one Dr Stukeley has exhibited all of fifty three years earlier. | ||
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