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MSA SC 5813-1-1
Collection	Judge Dennis M. Sweeney Collection
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Medium	Plexiglass
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Storage	00/22/10/34
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Acrylic plexigalss sign with the original printer's artwork for the Maryland Savings Share Insurance Corporation (MSSIC) Seal. During the savings and loan crisis of the 1980's, this printer's artwork with the seal was found unused in the MSSIC offices when the State took it over. From this prototype, seals were produced for the member thrift institutions to show that the institution was insured by MSSIC. The design of the seal ("Each account insured up to $100,000") implied that each institution was covered by the State of Maryland. This seal later hung in the office of Dennis Sweeney in the Office of the Attorney General until he was appointed to the bench in 1991. After that, it hung in his judicial chambers in Ellicott City where most people assumed it was the Great Seal of Maryland.

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