Hung Society seal, from William Stirling Collection

The ‘Weiyouwogau’ seal is one of the seals represented in the William Stirling Collection. William George Stirling was the Assistant Protector of Chinese in Singapore from 1921 to 1931. These seals were used to validate membership certificates which secret society members carried around as a form of identification.

 

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