 There have been several presses used since the seal was introduced, but none of the mechanisms used from 1782 through 1904 have survived.The seal, and apparently its press, was saved when Washington, D.C. was burned in 1814 though no one knows by whom.The press in use today was made in 1903 by R. Hoe & Co's chief cabinetmaker Frederick S. Betchley in conjunction with the 1904 die, with the cabinet being made of mahogany.