Cloth Seal, Berkshire Alnage, TD

Cloth Seal, Berkshire Alnage, TD, Image & Owned by David Powell.
Bought in England, 18mm, 2.86g.

Missing // TD, +.BERKS; around // missing // missing

An inner disc from a four part alnage seal for Berkshire stamped with the alnager's initials TD and the standard abbreviation for the county.

The TD initials have been found on Hampshire & Berkshire seals (possibly 1669 on a Hampshire seal) [Egan, G., 1987, p.275 & Seals 1383 & 4102]

From Paul Cannon, "The following is from Italian Ebay and provides another variation of the Berkshire alnage seal. It has a St George’s cross like MOL 88.427/20* but also the full name THO DENNIS along with BERKS Ebay."
*See p.41, Elton, Cloth Seals: An Illustrated Guide to the Identification of Lead Seals Attached to Cloth, 2017.
This information has provided us with the full name, Thomas Dennis, for the alnager with initials T.D.