Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Tiverton, Samuel Foote / Robert Burridge

Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Tiverton, Samuel Foote / Robert Burridge, Image & Held by Michel Royer.
Found in Amsterdam, 20mm.

22 diamonds above below & to right // three feet in triskele formation

A Tiverton cloth seal of Samuel Foote (trading from c 1660 to 1690) or partner & son-in-law Robert Burridge (trading 1690 - 1717).

Evans Type 1.1.4.*. Another example of this seal is recorded as No.9, Fig.1 p.394, Maunder, P., Tiverton Cloth: The Story of the Town's Woollen Trade 1475 - 1815.

Also recorded at Euro-Plombs.

*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.

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