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Description: | Cast lead two-part clothier's, weaver's or searcher's personal cloth seal with the raised ligatured initials 'E M B' over the middle of the privy mark which looks like a '4' above a circle joined by a vertical line to a 'W' and 'A' intertwined below, all within a square shield. The opposite face on the disc at the back is plain. The two flat discs are still held together by the connecting strip, but the face with the shield is cracked on its left side from the base of the connecting strip to the opposite edge of the seal.Egan (1995) illustrates similar examples of two-part cloth seals on page 183, Fig.32, Nos.239 & 241, which are dated from the 17th to the 18th century, and dyer's seal on page 188, Fig.37, No.289 which has a similar privy mark and the initials TMP within a cartouche , and was found in the Thames in London.
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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