Cloth Seal, Cloth Worker's Personal Seal, Privy Mark, RP, 1575~1700

Cloth Seal, Cloth Worker's Personal Seal, Privy Mark, RP, Image by StuE, Found by Nasher.
Found near Baldock, Hertfordshire, 21mm, 5.3g.

Privy mark based on figure 4 with vertical planted in the cleft of a heart, R and P (possibly B) respectively in left and right circular chambers in top of heart // 38 scratched

Clear cloth weave imprint on reverse of the rivet seal.

Cloth workers personal seal tentatively dated to the end of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries based on style.

See slightly similar No.223 Fig.31, Geoff Egan, 1994, Lead cloth seals and related items in the British Museum, British Museum Occasional paper 93.