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Description: | A complete cast lead two part Norwich Weaver's Company cloth seal of Post-Medieval date (1650-1705).The seal has a rectangular connecting strip that is 2.7 x 7.0mm. and has two integral discs.Disc 1 has raised numerals: 28 ½ (in two lines). The head of the lead rivet in between the two discs joining them together is visible on this disc. Disc 2 has a raised inscription in four lines:[W]OR/[S]TED/REFOR/MEDThe artefact is in good condition.22.6 x 20.1 x 3.6mm. Weight: 6.92g.A similar example, although for a textile length of 27 yards in length, is illustrated in Egan, G, 1995, British Occasional Paper 93, 'Lead Cloth Seal and Related Items in the British Museum', 43 & 173, fig 22, ref: 87. These Norwich Weaver's Company cloth seals are common seals as there was a large national and international market at the time. Two seals were attached, one at each end of the cloth, to every worsted examined at Norwich from the mid-seventeenth century until 1705 (when sealing there ceased) (Egan 1995, 46). The significance of 'reformed' is uncertain, but a seal found in London has the legend, implying that the reference may be being made to a specific process (Egan 1995, 47).Cloth seals were in use between the 13th and 19th centuries and were part of a system of industrial regulation and quality control which became very complicated, particularly in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Egan 1995, 1).
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