Cloth Seal, Searcher, Rectangular-type, Named, Christopher Merryweather

Cloth Seal, Searcher Rectangular-type, Named, Christopher Merryweather, Image & Found by Kees Essaadi.
Found in Amsterdam area, 35 x 30mm, 20.3g.

CHRISTOPHER / MERIWETHER / SEARCHED // LONG (28 incused) / WA(IG)HT (19 incused) / SIZE

Every HE is ligate.

A rectangular searcher's seal from a series of similar shaped seals. See Geoff Egan, No.244 Fig.33, Lead cloth seals and related items in the B.M. (B.M.occ.papers 93), "This belongs to a series of seals with rectangular parts, all having the full name of the searcher on one side, and on the other a proforma stamp for length, weight and width ('long, waight, size') of the particular textile ... The figures were added after examination of the piece. ... See Baart et al 1977, 118-9 no, 71 for a dimension stamp on a seal of this kind found in Amsterdam in a deposit dated to c.1575-c.1650."