Cloth Seal, Hanovarian Nineteenth Century, Image & Found by Nigel Nicholson.
Found near Maidstone, Kent, 14mm, 3.4g.
The remains of two discs from a cloth seal, one showing the arms of the Kingdom of Hanover but the electoral bonnet / or later royal crown may have been omitted from the inescutcheon simply to facilitate ease of die cutting and the inscription surrounding - (HONI) SOIT QUI MAL Y (PENSE) , the motto of the Order of the Garter suggests that this is a British seal. The other disc has a chevron-like mark scratched into it.
The Hanovarian arms on the arms of Great Britain were moved from the fourth quarter to an inescutcheon, as shown on this seal, when the United Kingdom was formed in 1801 and it remained there until 1837 with the electoral bonnet converting to a royal crown in 1816 two years after Hanover was declared a kingdom. This would give a date range for this seal from 1801 to 1837.
Possibly related to the earlier and larger German Merchant's seals, see No.348, Fig.46, Egan, Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum.