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Description: | Post-medieval lead custom house seal. On one face a crowned Dutch shield bearing the rampant lion of Holland, crowned and holding a sheaf of arrows in the right paw and a sabre in the left; to the right of the shield is the control number 235 and to the left a ?W. On the other side is an inscription in horizontal lines, only partially legible, [UITGRANDE/REGEN/]EN AC[CYNSE]N/XII. Eighteenth century Dutch Custom House seals have been found only in England, either in London or East Anglia, where they are relatively common. These seals were placed on a variety of merchandise including textiles. It measures (max) 25mm in diameter. See Mitchiner, M. 1991. Jetons, Medalets and Tokens 2. The Low Countries and France, page 954, ref. 2691-2 (this seal is a variant of the second issue). | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1700
1799 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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