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Description: | An incompletelead cloth seal of Post-Medieval date. The seal is atwo disc type which were joined by an integral central strip and sealed by compressing a central rivet. The front of the seal bears the raised design of the letter "A" the chevron crossbar of which remains clear. The reverse depicts a pinecone or thistle device.The 'A' and pinecone design indicates the seal will have originated in Augsburg, Germany as the pinecone is the heradlic badge of the city. It is suggested that such seals were attached to fustians, a variety of heavy cloth woven from cotton and chiefly prepared for menswear, and date to the 16th or 17th century.Lead cloth and bale seals were used in Europe to mark cloth for commercial sale between the 13th and the19th centuries and were part of a system of regulation and quality control. The rivet type of cloth seal was specifically devised for marking commercial textiles (Egan 1994, p.4) and were common from the late 16th century onwards.The seal is 20.32mm in diameter, 3.59mm thick and weighs 5.5g.Similar seals have been recorded on the PAS database as: SOM-83F4E6, SOM-516797, SOM-35D010 and NMS-3780C6. Circa 1500-1700 AD.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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