Cloth Seal, German, Wesel, Image & Found by Frode Andrê Ulvær.
Found in Porsgrunn, Norway, 33mm.
Shield bearing the arms of Wesel, Lombardic inscription around + design below, also scratched ?privy mark // repeat of other side but different scratched ?privy mark
A two-disc cloth seal from Wesel, Germany.
See No.319 Fig.42, Geoff Egan, 'Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum' Occasional Paper 93.
"The town's bombasines appear in seventeen-century books listing the duty payable on goods imported into England; 'weazell fustians' are rated at £2 in the book of(?)1609, and at £8 under Charles II (James 1857, 155). Dating to the end of the sixteenth/seventeenth century seems appropriate for [these] seals. ... The town's four-part seals may well be of slightly later date, but the fabric(s) could have remained the same."
See BSG.CS.00136 for a four-disc example of a Wesel cloth seal.
