Seal

[lep]

Hello! Can anyone help with this seal? 

Cheers and thanks in advance for your time!

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[Demonic_Duck]

Need a higher resolution and better lit photo.

[lep]

will try to get!

thank you!

 

[lep]

I fiddle a bit with contrast and light in the photo, does it help? will try to get better

 

[Jim]

It says 鑒定 ("appraised") in an slightly more archaic form of the first character with the 金 radical, then there's a smaller 京 below, presumably the office where it happened bu can't read the rest. Star makes you think China but maybe that's a Japanese variant as second part of jian is simplified, will go and check. Then the place might be 京都 Kyoto.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/鑑#Japanese

[lep]

terribly sorry, it's upside down ofc....

Suzhou Cultural Relics Bureau

 

thank you so much for your time !

[lep]

found the seal here: https://gotheborg.com/marks/jiandingtest.shtml

the above from the last

 

[Jim]

Ah, so it's a number after the jing, thought it might be a three. Beijing office then rather than Suzhou.

[lep]

Beijing ok, need to confirm!

thank you! ?

[889]

This is an export seal. Back in the days of 文物商店, everything in the store would have one of these attached somehow.