Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Halifax, Sam Hill & John Taylor
Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Halifax, Sam Hill & John Taylor, Image & Found by Dyson Liam.
Found in ?, 34mm.
Missing // cursive script monogram, joined lozenge border // No in cursive script 266 individual secondary stamps, *SAM HILL [&] JOHN TAYLOR HALIFAX around // missing
The inner discs from a probable clothier's seal.
Another seal has been found for a clothier in Rochdale - Euro-Plombs "Textile seal lead belonging to a certain John Taylor settled in the town of Rochdale (Lancashire) in England. Rochdale established itself in the 19th century as a major weaving center: at the heart of the process that gave birth to the Industrial Revolution, it was one of the first industrialized cities in the world. John Taylor was a name and first name very answered because on the baptismal certificates of the years 1790 we find about twenty John Taylor, either in baptized babies or in the fathers of baptized children (with several first names of wives) and at least 6 or 7 whose fathers were weavers. Hence the difficulty of attributing this lead with certainty to a specific owner. Seal from the very end of the 18th or 19th century."
See also BSG.CS.00141 for another Rochdale clothier.
*From Paul Cannon, "Below ‘266’ is the place of origin. I read the name as ‘HALIFAX’. Compare the way ‘L’ is rendered in ‘Taylor’ and the same way in ‘Halifax’. I suggest the other word reads ‘SAM HILL’. There are several other Sam Hill seals on Bagseals. See BSG.CS.O1101 and BSG.CS.00909. Both these record ‘near Halifax’.
If my reading is correct the seal suggests that Samuel Hill was working in some sort of partnership with a John Taylor. Samuel Hill died in 1760, which means the seal must predate this. I have not easily been able to locate any documentary references for a connection between both men but one may come to light.
I wonder if the correct reading of the seal is “SAM HILL [&] JOHN TAYLOR HALIFAX”. There is room for an ampersand, even though it is not visible. The cursive ‘h’ on the other face may represent or be part of the surname Hill."
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