TA Seal, Image by StuE, Found by PWS
Found in the Colchester region.
A large seal with most of the characters on it obscured. Around a central object there appears to be four equally spaced numbers 8 being the only decipherable one. Around this, curved around the outer border are letters - TA. being the only clear ones. Possibly Cyrillic script.
From Paul Cannon, "Based on the other custom’s seal TA can probably be expanded to ‘ТАможня’ and TOB to ‘ТОВар’? Whilst I can’t yet find any of the more common British types (with a blank reverse) on Russian sites perhaps this indicates they were attached to exported goods? I wonder if OTP can be expanded to ‘ОТРасль’ with the meaning of ‘department/section/branch’. The full inscription might therefore be expanded to С.П.Б. ТАможня ОТРасль ТОВар ie ‘St Petersburg customs department goods’??"
