Cloth Seal, Dye Seal, Dyer's One-Part Seal, GP

Cloth Seal, Dye Seal, Dyer's One-Part Seal, GP, 1575~1700, Image by StuE, Found by JCMaloney.
Found in Axminster Parish, Devon, 12mm.

Privy mark '4' G P to sides, scroll-work to sides // blank

Dyers one-part (bulla type) seal, Very similar to those shown in Fig.37 in Geoff Egans 'Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum' which he categorises as a dyer's one part seals found ‘in some numbers ... from Trig Stairs to London Bridge’. He dates them from the late 16th to 17th centuries.

Significantly not found by the Thames as most others have been and see BSG.CS.01599 for parallel confirming this type originally came from London. See also BSG.CS.01252.