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These state seals / podium plaques look good at home as well as on your office wall or official buildings such as the court house or sheriff's office for example. They make great gifts for friends colleagues or visiting officials. Hand carved from solid mahogany our state seals / podium plaques are then hand painted and varnished to give them a long lasting true color appearance. Manufactured at our own factory where quality control is of the highest importance we guarantee that no stick on letters or laser cutters are used on any of these products. Each state seal / podium plaque has a recessed keyhole slot in the rear to ensure a flush fitting on any surface. These seals are 3/4" deep with a 1/8" relief on the carving although special depth plaques are available on request, call 1-877-543-6094 for more details. We can manufacture any size of state seal / podium plaque up to 72" however any custom size can be accommodated.
If you want to have this beautiful seal as a table decoration we can supply specially manufactured stands.
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Custom Seals: We can offer you a complete custom service if you do not see what you are looking for. We can take your artwork in most popular formats or we may even have your design in our extensive media library. For assistance by phone please call our Toll Free Number 1-877-543-6094 or click on the button below:
The seal of the State of Maine shall be a shield, argent, charged with a pine tree (americana, quinis ex uno folliculo setis) with a moose (cervus alces), at the foot of it, recumbent; supporters: on dexter side, a husbandman, resting on a scythe; on sinister side, a seaman, resting on an anchor. In the foreground, representing sea and land, and under the shield, shall be the name of the State in large Roman capitals, to wit: MAINE. The whole shall be surrounded by a crest, the North Star. The motto, in small Roman capitals, shall be in a label interposed between the shield and crest, viz.: -- DIRIGO. Maine became a state on March 15, 1820 and the Legislature adopted the language governing the Seal's design on June 9. The description had been drafted by a short-lived Committee under the direction of first Senate President William Moody. Colonel Isaac G. Reed of Waldoboro is credited with the Seal's description and explanation. Note the archaic language in the above statute, still alive in Maine law; the Latin phrase for the pine tree derives from a classification system no longer used by botanists, for example. The actual appearance of the Seal has varied over the years. All of the variations have been based on the language above. The first sketch of the Seal was markedly different from the above; the "moose" looked like a deer, the shield was more conventional, the scythe was held with the blade on the ground. Later variations included the scythe being held behind the husbandman's head, and in one case, the inexplicable substitution of a sextant for the mariner's anchor. There is little statutory guidance for coloring the Seal other than the description of the blue-background State Flag in Title 1 Section 206. The present design was fixed by the Legislature in 1919. /Source: Maine.gov/ adopted (dd.mm.yyyy): 15.03.1820, 1919
