Cloth Seal, Dutch, Gouda

Cloth Seal, Dutch, Gouda, Image & Found by Boukje de Jongh.
Found in Schalkwijk, Holland, 20mm.

Crowned shield bearing a pale & three mullets to each side, Lion supporters to sides, border of pellets // fleece suspended

A two disc cloth seal from Gouda showing that city's arms and a fleece (representing the wool trade).

See no.406, p.109, vol.1, p.131, vol.II, Raf Van Laere, Loden zegels en verzegelingen, 2019, for another Gouda fleece seal and p.144, Leon C. Mijderwijk, Stof en loden, in soorten en maten diverse verschijningen van goudse lakenloden, Tidinge, 2009, for another.

See BSG.CS.00918 and BSG.CS.01041 for two other varieties of Gouda cloth seals.