Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Tiverton, George Osmond
Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Tiverton, George Osmond, Image & Found by Peter Herschlein.
Found in northern Germany, 24mm.
22 / GO // privy mark with foot S F beneath, inscription around
A Tiverton clothier's serge cloth seal.
From Peter Maunder, "Frustrating that the lettering is missing.
It is in situations like this that Jane's catalogue comes into its own.
I reckon this is another example of seal No. 34 on plate 4.
It looks to me as if the "22" and "GO" are struck from the same dies - they are virtually identical.
On the rove disc, the foot symbol is very similar, and the remains of the lettering beneath I can make out the bottoms of the letters TIVE [RTON]
Seal No. 34 has the pelleted border round the foot symbol and has the word TIVERTON in the right place beneath the foot symbol.
Therefore, I think this is a George Osmond seal dating from 1732 to 1744." Mike Patrick agrees.
