Cloth Seal, Coat of Arms, Joseph Alston

Cloth Seal, Coat of Arms, Joseph Alston, Image & Found by London Mudlark.
Found on Thames foreshore, 19mm.

Shield bearing ten mullets in four rows - 4 / 3 / 2 / 1, crescent and star? above with I and (E?)* to sides // no decipherable markings

*Although this looks to be an E from this picture the obvious parallel Crescent & Star Seal, Image & Found by Archer clearly shows the letter A in this position.

Complete two disc cloth seal with coat of arms possibly those of Joseph Alston.

A good match has been found for these arms by Michael Yeti Yates, "I think it could be a merchants seal prehaps for Joseph Alston. With the link you gave me on facebook and the other one on your website found by mudlark,you can get the initials I and maybe an A from the pair either side of crescent hence James Alston. The Alston arms are the same as the seals and with the cadency of this branch you get a crescent and star above the shield. Joseph moved to Chelsea London and married the daughter and coheir of a Mr Crookenberg a Dutch merchant with whom he got the large sum of twelve grand. One link I did find says he was a successful merchant businessman."
See Landed families of Britain and Ireland and THE KINGS CANDLESTICKS: Family Tree's and A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland, John Burke, Sir Bernard Burke, Scott, Webster, and Geary, 1841.