Vintage College Locket Photo Book Locket Gold keepsake Pendant New York Buffalo University Tiffany New York Professor Education

This is a Great small Gold Filled Locket or Pendant with Buffalonensis Sigillum Universitatis on the Seal. This Book locket is in good vintage condition and great for a Birthday, Buffalo Uinversity graduate or professor. Prior to the year 1922, the official seal of the University was representative only of the medical, dental and lawschools. The University Council in that year commissioned the well-known Lucius Bartlett to design a new seal that would be representative of the greater University of Buffalo, then being welded into a centralized and closely-knit organization. Mr. Bartlett, after considerable technical research produced a design, which although quite simple and inornate, seemed to embody all of the necessary requirements. It was then submitted to Mr. Hollis Godfrey of Boston, noted authority on heraldry, who approved the design relative to its correct significance. The seal was cut by Tiffany and Company of New York City and was officially adopted by the University, September 18, 1923. Technically, the seal is a circular plaque, with the Latin inscription Sigillum Universitatis Buffalonensis surrounding an inner plaque. A translation of the inscription is "The Seal of the University of Buffalo." On the smaller plaque is a rampant bison, significant of the City of Buffalo, mounted on an escutcheon or shield, the escutcheon being supported by the palm leaves of victory. On the escutcheon are three inescucheons. Located at the dexter chief and sinister points, or upper left and right corner of the escutcheon, are two inescutcheons bearing the initials "U" and "B", representing tbe University of Buffalo. At the middle base or botton is the third inescutcheon with the Latin inscription spe - translated --"With Hope." A chevron is located between these three inescutcheons, charged with the flames of wisdom. cl Mar19