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Description: | An incomplete cast lead cloth seal probably issued by Dutch refugee weavers based in Colchester, Essex. Post-Medieval (AD 1571-1728). Maximum diameter: 20.9mm; thickness: 2.1mm. Weight: 3.53g.Disc 1 of a two part seal with a raised legend in four lines:DVYT(?)/COLCHES/TER/SAEYThe reverse of the disc has a textile impression and a flattened integral rivet. There is no visible break where the connecting strip would have been situated.Disc 2 [Ornate shield, cross raguly, three coronets] (part of stem and part of a coronet survive on the remains of the rivet. The outer part of the disc is missing.'The Dutch, who came as religious refugees to Colchester in 1565 and 1570, were among the most successful manufacturers of the new draperies in England in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The high quality of their bays and says, maintained by stringent and rigorously observed searching procedures, led rival textile producers to counterfeit their community's special seals in the seventeenth century, in order to take advantage of their products' reputation.The immigrants' seals include the word 'Dutch' in the legend, in a variety of spellings. The date 1571 on many of the stamps appears to refer to the year in which their manufacture was established on a formal footing (though no record has been traced). The same date was used on seals right up to 1728, when the Dutch weavers ceased to exist as a separate organisation' (Egan 1994, 29).A cloth seal with a similar legend has been found in the Thames at London (Egan 1994, 30, fig. 12, ref. 26).The seal has an even grey patina overall. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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