Cloth Seal, Cloth Worker's Personal Seal, Privy Mark, CR, 1500~1700

Cloth Seal, Cloth Worker's Personal Seal, Privy Marked, CR, Image by StuE, Found by Dick Col. Club.
Found in the Colchester Area, 20mm, 10.6g.

A cloth seal with the clothworker's privy mark on the rivet side possibly with the initials CR at the top either side of the central line of the mark. The other side has a horizontal line with seven vertical ones crossing it. All are scratched in and are common on cloth seals probably indicating a tally of some dimension or number of treatments the cloth has undergone.