Similar to the 'Germanic merchant' type but it could be an inner disc from a conventional armorial four-disc cloth seal with the remains of the attachments smoothed off, however the inscription appears to suggest a continental origin.
The name Gvilhelmus Almandete is known on other seals. p.280, Elton, Cloth Seals, Archaeopress, 2017, "Two similar seals, dated 1570 and 1583, that combine a ‘Tudor’ rose with Germanic words (this time a name, Gvilhelmus Almandete) are in the Kulturen Museum, Lund. It is suggested that they had been attached to English cloth that had been exported to Germany, where it was dyed before being sold on [Rodenburg, N.M., 2011, p.71]."
See also Huszár L 1961, Merchant’s seals of the 16th and 17th centuries, "As to the place of production of these medals, the English hold the problem as undecided. In their opinion the medals were undoubtedly closing seals, chiefly for cloth bales but they had not been made in England. For supporting this opinion one of the principal arguments is that such medals have been found in several countries but never in England. Furthermore the aforementioned Hans Han medal, is entirely Flemish in character. Finally a medal has come to light near Moscow, of similar character but of later date (after 1603), bearing in its legend, besides the name of Jacob I, the foreign Flemish or German word 'Coninck' (König). All these proves to be a foreign production." pp.193-194.
However, W. Endrei, English Kersey in Hungary, Acta Historica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 21, 1975, p.145 - 147, says, "But the views of English experts cited by Huszár are also mistaken in calling into doubt the English provenance of the seals found in Hungary. On the one hand, leaden seals similar to the published ones do exist in England, although a thorough analysis of museum materials has not yet been started. In Figure 8.1 show a seal with the Tudor rose - it is similar to find no. 11 — which I have found in the British Museum. The legend is not "Guilhelmus" but "Hans van Erfferfelt 1576", evidently the name of the cloth manufacturer of Flemish origin. On the other hand, the types with a motto and the Tudor arms are so widespread outside England - 1 complete the series with a piece found in a museum of Göteborg (Figure 9.)92 - that the question presents itself: what did they imitate? Since quite a number of leaden seals of smaller dimensions and bearing the Tudor arms are to be found in England, we must rather consider the possibility that these marks were made with special signets serving the qualification of export pieces; but it may as well be that museums in Yorkshire keep similar specimens."