Salt Lake Telegram | 1905-04-07 | Page 5 | Uncle Sam's Great Seal

UNCLE SAM'S GREAT SEAL. The statement made by a certain historian his-torian that the great "-seal of the United States, which la used at the present day by the Secretary of State, who affixes It to commissions signed by the President, is the second of its kind In the possession of the Government, is not quite correct. There have been three great seals these of 1782, 1841 and INS The eatfe of the 1841 seal held only six arrows in his sinister talon, having In some unaccountable unaccount-able way lost seven of the original thirteen. thir-teen. The name of the cutter of the Ole Is unknown, and the change In the bird was made without authority. The position posi-tion of the eagle's talons is the reverse of nutural. TifTany cut the present' die. and its heraldic her-aldic and legal correctness devolved upon James Horton Whltehouse.