Cloth Seal, Exeter, Alnage, Lions Supporting Crown
Cloth Seal, Exeter, Alnage, Lions Supporting Crown, Image & Found by Tom Bland.
Found on the Thames foreshore, 9mm.
Missing // missing // two lions rampant supporting a crown // blank
An inner and rove disc from a four part alnage seal from the 17th century.
From Paul Cannon, "The better preserved example found in Holland shows this is an Exeter cloth seal Dutch Artifacts (see items nos: 37 & 38 for both sides). See also Egans Thesis p73.
The missing inner disc would be stamped with P over W, *EXON* around.
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