Cloth Seal, French, Nimes Silk / Serge Seal

Cloth Seal, French, Nimes Silk / Serge Seal, Image & Found by Filipe von Mayer.
Found Cascais near Lisbon, Portugal, ?mm.

Fleur-de-lis, DAVID BAUMET / POVR L'TRANGER around // crocodile on ground beneath palm tree, COL NEM to sides / NIMES below

See No.346 Fig.46, Geoff Egan,'Lead cloth seals and related items in the B.M. (B.M.occ.papers 93)', "palm tree and crocodile, COL NE(M) to sides, NIMES below // fleur-de-lis, PIERRE LARNAC around ..... The abbreviation stands for Colonia Nemauensis, the Latin name for Nimes, and the main device is the city's arms (these refer to the foundation of the original Roman colonia at Nimes by army veterans from Egypt). ... a similar seal of an early eighteenth-century Nimes maker of silk stockins and cloth, David Baumer, was found in a wreck off eastern Mexico."

From Michel Royer, "Pour 'l'Etranger' (sale abroad), generally stockings woven with two threads. These are prohibited for sale inside the French kingdom. Stockings for the sale in France were woven with 3 threads"

From Mark Ouwerkerk, Echange-Passion.