 It was examined by Gaillard Hunt, the author of a pamphlet on the Great Seal, who agreed that it appeared to be contemporaneous with the original 1782 seal, but he took no further interest in the matter.Decades later, in 1936, Dorsett wrote again regarding his die, and this time it was investigated more thoroughly.It is a very similar design to the first Great Seal die and obviously copied from it, even including a border of acanthus leaves.