Cloth Seal, Polish, Freystadt (Kożuchów), Image & Found by Tommy Sørensen.
Found in Feldborg, Jylland, Danmark, 16mm.
Gothic M // oblique fusils (not clear)
Identified by Michel Royer, "Probablement un seals de scelle de la ville de de Freystadt in Schleisen
Voir : Euro-Plombs, Obverse: inside an indented coat of arms circle bearing a large Gothic "M".
Reverse: checkerboard in the field.
Textile seals belonging to the city of Freystadt in Lower Silesia in German or Kożuchów in Polish which obtained city status in 1273 (renowned for its drapers). In 1450, Freystadt, which had an important corporation of drapers, had rights to strike coins and to brew. The Gothic "M" of these seals is found on the coins issued by the city (see the link below), the checkerboard on the reverse remains to be defined. Leads from the 15/16th centuries. Monety Średniowiecza."
Kożuchów "The town was founded in the 12th century, when it was part of the Kingdom of Poland. It was granted town rights in 1273 in the process of Ostdieslung. It became part of the Duchy of Głogów/Glogau under the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by the Piasts and Jagiellons until its dissolution in 1506.
While it was still a part of Austrian Silesia, the town became highly significant to German literature during the Baroque era. During the Thirty Years War in 1632, war poet Andreas Gryphius witnessed the pillaging and burning of Freystadt by the Protestant army of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. Gryphius immortalized the sack of the city in a detailed account entitled Fewrige Freystadt, which made him many enemies.
In the Silesian Wars of the 18th century the town was annexed by Frederick the Great to the Kingdom of Prussia and, from 1871, was part of the Second Reich. After the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, Freystadt was renamed Kożuchów and was annexed to the People's Republic of Poland. The town's Silesian German-speaking population was forcibly expelled and replaced by an ethnic Polish population similarly expelled from the newly annexed Western regions of the USSR."