Cloth Seal, Cloth Worker's Personal Seal, Privy Mark, F B, 1575~1600

Cloth Seal, Cloth Worker's Personal Seal, 1575~1600 Privy Mark, F B, Image & Found by Tony Thira.
Found on Thames foreshore just upstream London Bridge, north side, 22mm.

Privy mark retrograde figure 4 with loop at horizontal and diagonal join, cross at other end of horizontal, extended vertical with F B to sides and terminating in a split tail curving outwards overlaid by heart-shaped outline (double stamped) // missing but rivet remains with cloth weave impression

One disc from a two disc cloth-worker' seal. See No.211, Fig.30, Geoff Egan, 'Lead cloth seals and related items in the B.M. (B.M. Occasional Paper 93)' - "Clothiers', weavers' & searchers' seals with privy marks etc. ... (?)Late sixteenth-/seventeenth-century."

This privy mark & initials appear in a modified form on seal BSG.CS.01128.