Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Taunton, Tomas Andross

Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Taunton, Tomas Andross, Image & Found by Peter Eggers.
Found in Graft, Noord Holland, 29mm, 15.6g.

T crossed with a barrel or tun, TANTON SARGES around // multi-rayed star, TOMAS ANDROSS around

The seal of the clothier Tomas Andross who dealt in Taunton serges. The object on the T has been interpreted as a tun as that would imply a rebus of Taunton.

From Peter Maunder, "The T and the "tun" are a well-known rebus for Taunton".

See BSG.CS.01206 for another Taunton clothier with a similar seal.