Cloth Seal, Belgian, Turnhout, Coat of Arms, Image & Found by Peter Daniels.
Found in the Winchester area, 20mm.
Shield bearing pale (arms of Turnhout), legend around (TURNOLD?) // hexagram with pellets
See nos. 161 & 162 in Fig.26, pages 72, 73 & 85, Cloth Seals, Geoff Egan in Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum Medieval Catalogue, Part 3, "Turnhout ('Turnold') was the main centre of the flourishing Kempen tick-weaving industry in the mid sixteenth century ... Several parallels found in London and elsewhere confirm the second stamp is a hexagram (star-of-David) type motif, but most fail to provide a readable legend giving the town name, which ... is regularly so stylised that none of the letters can confidently be made out".
