Cloth Seal, Cloth Worker's Personal Seal, Privy Mark, 4xx, SB

Cloth Seal, Cloth Worker's Personal Seal, Privy Mark, SB, Image & Found by Patrick Goodall.
Found in North Yorkshire, 31mm.

1244 scratched // privy mark S B to sides

A clothworker's personal seal. The scratched numbers are most likely an order number, which suggests a clothier but it could also have belonged to one of the many other craft and business men and women in the textile trade. Families often used the same mark with a change in initials for following generations.