Dutch Custom House Seal, Image by StuE, Found by Jammy Ged.
Found in Yorkshire, 22mm. 11.5g.
Larger than the usual tear drop shaped seal from Holland but still with the Lesser Arms of the Netherlands post 1815*. Nothing can be determined from the other side with any certainty but from other similar seals:-
Info from Glenn on UKDN:-
"Probably the text on the back is something like this:
IN EN
UITGAANDE
REGTEN EN
ACCYNSEN
(freely translated: in- and outgoing rights and taxes)
Put on goods by customs when they have checked it for sending abroad (by vessel or train)."
*The arms, consisting of a crowned lion armed and langued, holding in his dexter paw a sword and in the sinister paw seven arrows tight together, were first used in The Dutch Republic of the Seven United Provinces from 1584 until 1796 when revolution replaced it. It was returned in its current form in 1815 by the first king of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, William I, who added the azure, billetty or with a lion rampant or of Nassau (blue shield, gold lion & billets) from his family arms. However the colour change of the background from red to blue cannot be seen on a lead impression although it is implied by the addition of horizontal lines and the only other visual difference is the billets from the house of Nassau (small rectangles on the background which are only faintly evident on some of the seals). This means the seals cannot be older than 1815.
