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Later in the year 111 RE,[b 1] a report to the king from the Office of the Royal Private Secretary dated 28 May 111 RE, the twenty-fifth year of his reign, stated: “The Ministry of Paddies has discontinued using the nine seals. It is using the Seal of Phonlathēp Holding a Plough as the main seal and the Seal of Varuṇa Upon a Serpent as a secondary seal.”
The nine seals of the Ministry of Agricultural Affairs have been kept in the ministry until now. As regards the Seal of Phonlathēp Holding a Plough, I once saw the real one and I believe that it is still in that ministry.
The seal of the Ministry of Education is the Seal of a Boundary Marker With a Wheel of Law (see figure 37). Back when the Ministry of Education was still known as the Ministry of Public Instruction, an old royal seal, the Seal of Illuminated Flying Castle (see figure 34), was used by the royal permission as the official seal of the Secretary of State for Public Instruction. This seal was originally the official or personal seal of Kromsomdet Phra Paramānuchitchinōrot.[b 2] But HRH Prince Kromphraya Naritsarānuwattiwong expressed an opinion that the impression which was accompanied by a note stating it was the Seal of Illuminated Flying Castle is not likely the Seal of Illuminated Flying Castle of Kromsomdet Phra Paramānuchitchinōrot because only a lamp was seen in the castle without any light. The Seal of Illuminated Flying Castle is now at the Royal Museum and was once redesigned on the basis of traditional sources for use as the official seal of the National Council of Culture.
