Broken signet ring
A signet ring whose seal is cracked — an authority to authenticate that no longer produces a clean mark.
A broken signet ring in a dream is the dream's image of an authority to authenticate that no longer produces a clean mark. The ring is still worn; the seal it presses into wax now leaves a fractured impression. The dream brings the broken signet when something in your life — a name, a reputation, an official capacity — is still being used to certify documents and the certification is no longer reading as whole. A signet recut cleanly is the dream affirming the restoration. A signet still in use with the crack now part of every impression is the dream noting that the defective authentication is going on the record, and every document signed with it carries the evidence of the fracture.