Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Tiverton, Henry Blagdon, Image & Held by Michel Royer

Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Tiverton, Henry Blagdon, Image & Held by Michel Royer.
Purchased from the Netherlands, 20mm.

22 // Clover, HENRY BL(A)GDON around

A seal of Henry Blagdon, a serge clothier trading from Tiverton from 1707 until his death in 1716.

Evans Type 2.2.1.* This seal is also recorded as No.26 Fig.3 p.398, Maunder, P., Tiverton Cloth: The Story of the Town's Woollen Trade 1475 - 1815. It is now held in Topsham Museum - Object Number 10704(1).

*A helpful classification system for these seals, devised by Jane Evans, can be found as an appendix to Peter Maunder’s comprehensive history of the Tiverton cloth trade.

This and other Tiverton seals were taken from Michel Royer's Euro-Plombs.

The fullest collection of Tiverton cloth seals (about thirty) is on permanent display in Tiverton Museum.