Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Tiverton, James Pulling
Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Tiverton, James Pulling, Image & Found by Willy68
Found near 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands (in a cornfield thought to contain an 18th century waste dump from the City), 32mm.
22 // figure 4 resting on foot G O to sides, JAMES PULLING.TIVERTON around
This is a cloth seal from Tiverton in Devon, Evans Type 4.4.1.*. This seal is also recorded as No.70 Fig.7 p.406, Maunder, P., Tiverton Cloth: The Story of the Town's Woollen Trade 1475 - 1815. The large amount of Tiverton serge produced was almost entirely exported to the Continent where many cloth seals have been recovered, mostly bearing the distinctive 4 impaled foot privy mark of Samuel Foote. On this seal it looks more like the foot is wearing a boot.