The 1884 School Seal

The Brisbane Girls Grammar School 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.