Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Leeds, Fleece

Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Leeds, Fleece, Image & Found by Doug Eriquez.
Found in Litchfield County, USA, 29mm.

16 1/2 in border of pellets, 104 incuse secondary stamp above // shield bearing the arms of Leeds suspended from ribbon above, foliate design below & to sides

Most cloth seals from Leeds have only partial arms, just the fleece or three mullets in chief. The complete arms on this seal, including the horizontal lines representing the colour blue, may indicate that this seal was issued by the city authorities themself rather than an individual clothier working from the city.

See BSG.CS.01025 for another seal from Leeds with similar incuse numbers that are believed to be order numbers connected with documentation for the particular cloth transaction.