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Description: | A Post Medieval cloth seal of the company of dyers, dating AD1700-1800. The seal is a two disc seal, with the rove disc and connecting strip missing. Part of the stamp is still visible on the rivet stub. The more complete disc depicts a double-headed eagle with an inscription rearding GHE[---]ER[---]ER[---]. On the rivet stub the inscription reads [G]OV // [D]A, indicating the cloth seal was from the company of dyers based in Gouda, Netherlands.The double headed eagle was the emblem used by the dyers' guild in a number of towns in and around the Low Countries including Gouda (Stuart Elton, pers com.). A similar example from Leiden has been identified on bagseals.org: BSG.CS.00670.Dimensions: diameter: 26.30 mm; thickness: 4.18 mm; weight: 11.37g.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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