Cloth Seal, Cloth Worker's Personal Seal, Initialled, B&T, 1700~1825

Cloth Seal, B&T, Image & Found by John GM
Found on Thames foreshore, 27mm, 10.9g..

B&T on the riveted side and OAE possibly with a 7 below on the other side.

A two-disc cloth seal of the clothiers/weavers/searchers variety that still has a piece of the cloth trapped in it. Similar to No.232 Fig.31 in Geoff Egan 'Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum'

From Egan, "incuse numbers are generally found on two disc seals of eighteenth-/nineteenth-century date - i.e. post-alnage."