A very rare, complete, six-lobed alnage cloth seal. The Dukes and Duchess of Lennox and Richmond held the major alnage farming rights for England and Wales from 1605 until the system finished in 1724. A similar seal is recorded as No.22, Fig.29 in G.Egan, Lead cloth seals and related items in the B.M. (B.M.occ.papers 93), "This cumbersome form, lacking any clear advantage from its complexity, seems to have been briefly in vogue for some alnage seals issued by the Duke of Lennox, probably under James I. ... The initials CK are presumably those of the local alnager or an assistant."
The initial on this seal is K not CK. See BSG.CS.00935 for an incomplete parallel to this seal found in Amsterdam, Netherlands. See BSG.CS.00934 for another partial example with CL ligate as the suspected alnager's initials.
