Objects of Substance - School_Seal

Brisbane Girls Grammar School Board Minutes, 31 st March 1884, p. 37.

The Brisbane Girls Grammar Seal employs a lever press mechanism that allows the user to produce a crisply embossed coat of arms. Incredibly, the seal is still utilised by the School Board today, for the marking of official documents. But it is more than a visible indentation on paper that makes this administrative item so significant – for the act itself signifies a legal agreement and culminates in a highly symbolic gesture that harks back hundreds, if not thousands, of years.

The Brisbane Girls Grammar School Corporate Seal and Wooden Box (detail), c. 1884.