Cloth Seal, Cloth Worker's Personal Seal, Heraldic Device, Eagle, 1575~1700

Cloth Seal, Eagle, Image by StuE, Found by Nasher.
Found near Baldock, Hertfordshire, 22mm, 8.2g.

Eagle displayed, possible chick lower right, rope border // letter B stamped.

The style matches those known to be used by clothiers, weavers and searchers to demark cloths they have worked on. See Figs. 33 & 34, Geoff Egan,'Lead cloth seals and related items in the B.M. (B.M.occ.papers 93)' and fits to a series displaying heraldic images, p.88, ibid.