Dutch, Customs Seal, 659
Dutch, Customs Seal, 659, Image & Found by Nick_M.
"Found this bag seal at the Pewsey rally on Sunday. On one side are the numbers 659 but the seal was struck off centre. Could the numbers be the date 1659? Any ideas? This is the 1st bag seal i have found."
From similar seals:-
A Dutch Custom House seal. The obverse depicts the crowned Dutch shield bearing the rampant lion of Holland with the inscription, R & A (Rechten en Accijnzen = duties and excise) either side of the shield. The reverse has an indecipherable round stamp over the control number, 659.
*The arms, consisting of a crowned lion armed and langued, holding in his dexter paw a sword and in the sinister paw seven arrows tight together, were first used in The Dutch Republic of the Seven United Provinces from 1584 until 1796 when revolution replaced it. It was returned in its current form in 1815 by the first king of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, William I, who added the azure, billetty or with a lion rampant or of Nassau (blue shield, gold lion & billets) from his family arms. However the colour change of the background from red to blue cannot be seen on a lead impression although it is implied by the addition of horizontal lines and the only other visual difference is the billets from the house of Nassau (small rectangles on the background which are only faintly evident on some of the seals). This means the seals cannot be older than 1815 and were probably unlikely to be still in use after the early 20th century.
See Mark Ouwerkerk's Dutch Customs Seals – Catalogue for excellent details about these types of seals.
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