Persian MS 97 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Summary of Contents: A round paper disc of paper card faced with heavily flocked blue on both sides, embossed with a coat of arms surmounted by a crown on the obverse bearing a rose cross and symbols of the Four Evangelists in each corner, and what may be a sacred heart of Jesus design on the reverse, surrounded by partly legible, possible Latin mottos. Wrapped in a folded sheet of paper, it bears a description in the hand of former owner Nathaniel Bland who identifies it as a ‘Specimen of stamped paper found at Fort Hai, Chusan, when that town fell into the hands of the English 6th July 1840.’