Cloth Seal, Cloth Worker's Personal Seal, Initialled, NO, 1700~1825
Cloth Seal, NO, Image by StuE, Found by Nasher,
Found near Baldock, Hertfordshire, 21 x 28mm, 6.9g.
Bee? with crown above // NO deeply incised / 22 scratched
The style is similar to those known to be used by clothiers, weavers and searchers to demark cloths they have worked on. See Figs. 33 & 34, Geoff Egan,'Lead cloth seals and related items in the B.M. (B.M.occ.papers 93)'