Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Tiverton, John Ware, Image & Found by Auke Pasterkamp.
Found in Holland, ?mm.
22 / GO // missing but foot stamped on rivet stub, traces of inscription around
Foot reversed to point left with no privy mark. Cloth seal of Tiverton trader John Ware (trading 1795 - 1800) Evans Type 4.11.1. Grade 22/GO. See Fig.7, No.72 & 73 p.406, Tiverton cloth, The Story of the Town’s Woollen Trade 1475 – 1815 by Peter Maunder.
The fullest collection of Tiverton cloth seals (about thirty) is on permanent display in Tiverton Museum.
