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Description: | Copper alloy personal seal matrix, also known as a 'fob' seal. It appears to have been cast in two pieces, the casting flashes of which have been smoothed a little ut are still quite prominent. The handle is rather flat but trefoil with a flat knobbed terminal. Each lobe is pierced through, and there is an additional piercing throught the centre. The stem extends below the handle and is also rather flat, expanding into the matrix itself which is rather smooth with tooling marks. The inscription MI either side of a vegetable (or flower?) of some kind (possibly an onion) is within a grooved outline of the surface of the matrix. Diameter 13x15mm. Height 31mm. 16th century. Perhaps belonged to a grocer?
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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