Russian Bale Seal, Baltic States, Flax, NP, 1780

Russian Bale Seal, NP, 1780, Image by Derfel, Found by Peter Olivant.
Found on the Thames foreshore, 23mm.

Russian Bale Seal

From Ged Dodd, "ДA = DA / ЛEБEДEB / H2 // NP / ??12K / 1780 ...
Flax inspector LEBEDEV working out of 2 post on the Baltic Sea coast in 1780 (Perhaps in St Petersburg or Narva, Memel, Tilsit, Konigsberg, Liebau, Reval or Riga ..(NP probably under licence to Riga)
The Grower/Owner/Agent initials are ?? and the bale contained 12K crown quality flax plants ...
H2 is a new number post for Lebedev .. ..
see IDS780 on page The PeaceHavens Project, Seal Numbers 701 - 800."