Cloth Seal, Cloth Worker's Personal Seal, Initialled, YX, 1700~1825
Cloth Seal, Cloth Workers, YX, Image by StuE, Found by Dave Haffenden.
Found on the Essex Suffolk borders.
Some flowing script lettering is faintly visible (L?) on one side and a clear capital Y and X stamped on the other. Found in the Colchester area.
Possibly a weavers personal issue seal, see Gordon Bailey, Fig.2 P.17, 'Finds Identified'
From Egan, Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum, "incuse numbers are generally found on two disc seals of eighteenth-/nineteenth-century date - i.e. post-alnage."