Cloth Seal, Dutch, Amersfoort, Image & Found by John Los.
Found in Amsterdam, Holland, 22mm.
XX single pellet above // crowned shield bearing cross 5 8 to sides, AMER(S FOOR)T around
A 1758 bombazine seal from Amersfoort with XX representing 20 els of the cloth. It is nor known what the single pellet signifies. Other seals have two pellets.
Britannica Online Encyclopedia - "bombazine, also spelled Bombasine, textile, usually black in colour, with a silk warp and worsted weft, or filling, woven in either plain or twill weave... Bombazine was originally made exclusively of silk and in a variety of colours, but the usual colour gradually became standardized as black because of its principal use in garb of mourning and of persons in religious orders. It was woven with silk warps and worsted wefts. Bombazine was produced in ancient China and Japan, Elizabethan England, [and obviously Holland] and in Italy, France, Spain, and England during the 18th and 19th centuries."
