Cloth Seal, Dye Seal, Dyer's Two-Part Seal, Fran Wheatly

Cloth Seal, Dye Seal, Dyer's Two-Part Seal, Fran Wheatly, Image by Karen Ellis-Andrews, Found by Roy Ellis.
Found on the Thames Foreshore*, 27mm.
*by a loading platform on the south bank, just west of Southwark Bridge. The platform has almost eroded away leaving only the vertical studs remaining.

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Two more examples of Fran Wheatly dyer's seal, see
BSG.CS.01972 for two other examples and Geoff Egan's identification of this dyer's seals.

From Paul Cannon, "The following may relate to the Francis Wheatley or Wheatly of these dyers’ seals.

1)Francis Wheatley of St Saviours, Southwark, dyer, declared bankrupt, 1748 [Aris’s Birmingham Gazette, 29 August 1748, p3]

2) A document relating to Francis Wheatley, dyer, late of St Saviour, Southwark, a bankrupt, 1749. See National Archives - Ward v Wheatley.

3)”Days appointed for the payment of dividends: Jun 18th: Francis Wheatly of St Saviours: Southwark in the County of Surry, Dyer”. [Manchester Mercury 8 June 1756, p3]"