Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Tiverton, Henry Blagdon (Oliver Peard)

Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Tiverton, Henry Blagdon (Oliver Peard), Image & Held by Michel Royer.
Purchased from the Netherlands, c 20mm.

O22P // Clover G O to sides, HENRY BL(A)GDON around

A Tiverton cloth seal for Oliver Peard (trading 1723 to 1764) using the Henry Blagdon clover leaf trade mark.

Evans Type 3.1.6. (No.46, Fig.5, p.402)*

*A helpful classification system for these seals, devised by Jane Evans, can be found as an appendix to Peter Maunder’s comprehensive history of the Tiverton cloth trade.

This and other Tiverton seals were taken from Michel Royer's Euro-Plombs.

The fullest collection of Tiverton cloth seals (about thirty) is on permanent display in Tiverton Museum.