Royal Seal Of The King On Paper
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: King Maha Mongkut
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THIS IS A RECTANGULAR PIECE OF PAPER PASTED ONTO A STIFF CARD, AND BEARING TWO SEALS OF THE KING OF SIAM, AND TWO INSCRIPTIONS IN BLACK-ONE IN SIAMESE AND THE OTHER ON ENGLISH AS FOLLOWS: "PRESENTED BY HIS MAJESTY PHRA: BARD SOMDETCH PHRA: PARAMENAR MAHA MONGKUT, PHRA: CHOMKNLAU CHAUYUHUA THE MAJOR KING OF SIAM AND ITS DEPENDENCIES, ETC. TO FRANKLIN PIERCE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ETC." THOUGH THIS WAS NOT EARLIER IDENTIFIED, BECAUSE THE CAT. ENTRY ONLY SAID "TO FRANKLIN PIERCE, P.U.S.", THE SECOND ENTRY CALLED IT A SEAL ON PAPER. THEREFORE THE INDEFINITE FIRST ENTRY TITLE AND THE SECOND ONE OF THE SEAL, APPEARS TO INDICATE THAT THIS IS THE CORRECT ITEM. *HOWEVER TWO OTHER SIMILAR ORIGINAL ENTRIES HAVE NOT BEEN LOCATED. - R. ELDER. *EVEN THOUGH NOTHING OF THIS NATURE APPEARS ON THE LIST OF GIFTS WHICH ORIGINALLY CAME FROM SIAM."
label: Notes
content: Illustrated and described in McQuail, Lisa. 1997. "Treasures of Two Nations: Thai Royal Gifts to the United States of America" Smithsonian Institution. p. 50-51
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Apr 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Thailand, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Siamese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 266032
label: USNM Number
content: E51-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Card
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 21 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: 10.4 cm