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Cloth Seal, Colchester Dutch Community Seal, Tubular, 100 Bay Seal

Cloth Seal, Colchester Dutch Community Seal, Tubular, 100 Bay Seal, Image & Found by José de Sousa.
Found in the Algarve, Portugal, 25.7 x 12.7mm, 6.99g.

100 in sub-rectangular border // blank

A tubular or 'pipe' seal thought to be used by the Dutch immigrant weavers on their bay cloth. Notice the pellets at the centre of the noughts.

See No.203 Fig.29, Geoff Egan, 'Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum' Occasional Paper 93. "Presumably a seal for a 'one-hundred' bay produced by one of the Dutch-immigrant communities."

Date: 16/06/16
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Cloth Seal, Colchester Dutch Community Seal, Tubular, 100 Bay Seal
Keywords: Unique Identification Number - BSG.CS.00992 Date late 16th to 17th century (max 1571 to 1728)
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