"Errata to Cloth Seals: An Illustrated Guide to the Identification of Lead Seals Attached to Cloth"
"Errata to Cloth Seals: An Illustrated Guide to the Identification of Lead Seals Attached to Cloth"
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ERRATA:-
p.7 While the BSG.CS.00001, Strasbourg seal is heavier than any in the British Museum, a cloth seal from Hamburg dwarfs this at 63mm & 160g. - p.27-28, Ansorge,J., 2009, Die Ausgrabungen fur das Stralsunder OZEANEUM - Einblicke in den Haf eneiner Hansestadt.
p.57 - Lion is rampant not passant, see BSG.CS.00229
p.91 - BSG.CS.00155 This may or may not be from a Canterbury seal. This disc appears on other Commonwealth alnage seals, see BSG.CS.01406 a Worcester Commonwealth alnage seal.
p.102 Northampton - This is more probably a Norwich seal, see BSG.CS.01459, which clearly shows the lettering around the date to be NORIM rather than NORAM.
p.143 - Yorkshire - MOL 78.227/15 - "William Power was an alnager for stockings in Yorkshire from 1618 to 1624." It should be added to this that while no definite connection can be made with the WP initials shown between the K & C, dating to the first part of the 17th century is correct for this type of seal.
p.194 - London Clothworkers’ Company Arms "An even better example of the arms of the Clothworkers’ Guild can be seen on MOL 79.428/1, shown below in the ‘Clothiers’ section." 79.428/1 should read 79.428/2.
p.246 Searcher’s Seal, PAS NLM-4F984C IOSEPH / NECKER should read IOSEPH / ARCHER (with thanks to Paul Cannon) The following is taken from the orders books for Wakefield District:
“Ordered that the several persons following be appointed and sworn Narrow Cloth Searchers for the year ensuing for the several salaries and at the several mills and places hereafter mentioned (that is to say): Pontefract 23 April 1759, Joseph Archer: Hobson’s Battys, Oxsprings, dyers, Hunshelf: £16.0”.
Joseph Archer is one of twenty nine narrow cloth searchers recorded for that year.
See PAS LIN-57C813 for searcher's seal for Richard Grice and PAS SUR-AD5735 for another for James Kershaw.
p.268 - MOL 79.428/4 Clothier’s Seal, John Draper, Image by S.F. Elton, Unknown find spot, 49mm, 68.3g. MOL 79.428/4 should read MOL 79.428/2.
p.281 - Germanic Merchants’ Seals - see BSG.CS.01539
p.298 - Augsburg, OX, - "No speculative lions have so far been found." But see BSG.CS.01162, Cloth Seal, German, Ulm, Lion.
p.307 - "BSG.CS.00518 & MOL 90.342/1 are examples of a rare variety with a lion rampant on a crested shield on one side and GROS / HART / ANS / ? on the other." These seals are now known to be from the German municipality of Großhartmannsdorf. See BSG.CS.00518 and BSG.CS.00520
p.351 Appendix 2: Types of Cloth, Long ell: a kind of perpetuana - "measuring twenty-four yards long by thirty-one inches wide, and weighing twelve pounds apiece, long ells (or sandfords as they were sometimes called - a variety of serge) had historically been the speciality of the Ashburton area." [Maunder, P., 2018, p.327] Towards the end of the 18th century the East India Company traded large quantities of this cloth to China in exchange for tea.
p.373 List of Alnagers Known by their Initials - RV see BSG.CS.01406
p.384 Distinctive Identification Features on Cloth Seals - Keys - Avignon; Comines-Warneton; Reichenbach im Vogtland; Salzwedel; Trier; (Keys crossed) - Lubań, Poland; Babimost, Poland; Vatican City State
p.384 Fleur-de-Lis, Ubiquitous – especially on French and Low Countries seals and was part of England’s arms pre 1800. The fleur-de-lis has not been found on any English seals, other than in the English arms, prior to the badge and emblems used under the Stuarts.
