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Cloth Seal, French, Ganges, I. Gervais Seal

Cloth Seal, French, Ganges, I. Gervais Seal, Image by StuE, Found by Irish Mikek.
Found in Augsburg, Bavaria, South Germany, 17mm, 6.8g.

Both sides have a continuous circular border of touching pellets. Curved around the inside of the first face is .I.GERVAIS..*. with a fleur di lise at its centre. On the second face GANGES is curved across the top with a laurel or wings curved up from the bottom either side of a sheild with a cross or simply devided into quarters.

From Daniel Slowik, "Ganges is a famous place for the silk, like and near Nimes. Gervais is the name of the 'fabricant'."

Ganges is a commune in the Hérault department in Languedoc-Roussillon in southern France. The arms of Ganges is a quartered shield with a lion rampant in each quadrant.

Date: 11/09/2011
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Cloth Seal, French, Ganges, I. Gervais Seal
Keywords: Unique Identification Number - BSG.CS.01744 (was BSG.BS.00726) Date 18th century
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