TOODYAY ROAD BOARD COMMON SEAL 1953 - 1961
1871Engraved metal common seal for the Toodyay Road Board, used to authentic documents.
Circular shape and affixed to a wooden block for display purposes.
The design includes identifying text and a swan swimming on water with wings partially spread under the southern cross.
The design Is in a mirror image to be used to impress in wax affixed to paper.
This seal was used by the Toodyay Road Board to validate and seal certain documents. This is the later design, after the direction the swan was facing changed (to reflect the change made by the WA Parliament on the Western Australian flag). It was used between 1953 and 1961 until the seal became redundant after the Road Board became a Shire.
Molten wax would be placed (dripped) onto the document where required and before the wax could harden or set, this seal would be placed atop it and pressed into the wax. Upon lifting, the words you see displayed on the seal in reverse, would show in the wax the right way around - legibly.
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In reverse:
Toodyay Road Board / Vias Tutas Cupimus [We Desire Safe Paths] / Common Seal.
W and A in circles on opposite sides of the outside border.
The Toodyay Road District was established on 24 January 1871. The Newcastle (later Toodyay) townsite separated as the Municipality of Newcastle on 2 October 1877. The municipality merged back into the road district on 8 March 1912. On 1 July 1961, Toodyay became a shire under the Local Government Act 1960, which reformed all remaining road districts into shires.
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