Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Tiverton, Theodore Wilson

Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Tiverton, Theodore Wilson, Image & Found by John van Bennekom.
Found in the Netherlands, ?mm.

OP/22/GO // sprig with six leaves (THEOD WILSON around)

This is a cloth seal from Tiverton in Devon with the fictitious trading name Theodore Wilson (For Enchmarch 1754). The large amount of Tiverton serge produced was almost entirely exported to the Continent where many cloth seals have been recovered.

Identified by Jane Evans - Type 5.4.2. from her catalogue published as an appendix to Peter Maunder’s comprehensive history of the Tiverton cloth trade.

A more complete example of this seal is recorded as No.80 Fig.8 p.408, Maunder, P., Tiverton Cloth: The Story of the Town's Woollen Trade 1475 - 1815.

The fullest collection of Tiverton cloth seals (about thirty) is on permanent display in Tiverton Museum.