A double-sided circular red wax seal impression of the Great Seal Deputed for the Colony of New York during the reign of George III. Within a circular ebonised wooden frame.

The obverse shows the royal arms for George III with supporters; the reverse shows George III robed and standing before two kneeling, bare-breasted men who present him with goods. A motto reads 'SIGILLUM / PROVINCIAE / NOSTRAE / NOVI / EBORACI / IN / AMERICA' (Seal of the Province of New York in America).
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Great Seals Deputed were used in British colonies to authenticate local laws, grants of land and writs in the king's name. The silver seal matrix, double-sided like those for Georgia, Virginia and North and South Carolina, would be pressed through paper onto each side of a single disc of wax. The resulting impression was affixed to the bottom of the legal document by ribbon or a parchment strip.

This seal was designed by His Majesty's Engraver of Seals, Christopher Seaton, in 1767. The composition follows seals produced as early as 1690, for the colony of New York: a standing British ruler is attended by a kneeling subject dressed conspicuously in local costume and holding resources which hint at the untapped wealth of the colonies. Depicting indigenous populations semi-clothed was visual trope used to justify non-European populations' need for 'civilisation'.

The silver seal was dispatched by ship with others newly prepared for the North American and West Indian colonies in the spring of 1767, and likely arrived in the Americas that summer.