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Description: | An incomplete post-Medieval four part Charles II or James II alnage cloth seal (c. 1662-c. 1700).This single disc is moulded at the front, flat and plain at the rear. The front depicts a bare-headed bust right, possibly of Charles II with the inscription: MAG BRI REXIt is slightly damaged and has a buff patina.Diameter: 14.1mm; thickness: 0.8mm. Weight: 1.17g.Similar examples are illustrated in Egan, G, 1994, British Occasional Paper 93, 'Lead Cloth Seal and Related Items in the British Museum', pages 62-3 & 178, fig 27, ref no 134. 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, page 1).Egan, G., 1994. Lead cloth seals and related items in the British Museum, British Museum Occasional Papers, 93 London: Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities, British Museum
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