Cloth Seal, Buckinghamshire, Alnage, 1611, A

Cloth Seal, Buckinghamshire, Alnage, 1611, A, Image & Found by Earl Specht.
Found in The Netherlands, 20mm, 7.67g.

.161(1). / A, COM BVCKI... around (two secondary stamps GI) // 1611 / arms of Stuart Britain (two secondary stamps asterisk with pellets)

A two disc alnage seal for Buckingamshire dated 1611. The secondary stamps may be for import controls into Holland or to signify the Dutch owner of the cloth.

See p.60, Provenanced Leaden Cloth Seals by Geoffrey Egan, Sub-Department of Medieval Archaeology, University College, University of London. submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 1987, "Only one seal, of the two-disc type, has the county name sufficiently legible to be certain:
A , '1611' around top, (C)OM! BUCKIN(GHAM... ) around // arms of Stuart Britain, .. 61.. above (this date could be either 1610 or 1611 - cf. Wiltshire no. 1300 and Worcestershire no. 596)."