Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Tiverton, Samuel Foote

Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Tiverton, Samuel Foote, Image & Found by Axel Gravertje.
Found in the Netherlands, ?mm.

22 two diamonds below // double foot privy mark S F to sides of base

A Tiverton cloth seal of Samuel Foote (trading from c 1660 to 1690).

Evans Type 1.1.2.*. Another example of this seal is recorded as No.5, Fig.1 p.394, Maunder, P., Tiverton Cloth: The Story of the Town's Woollen Trade 1475 - 1815.

*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.

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