Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Halifax, W.H. Rawson, Image Displayed by Digger27*
Found USA?, ?mm.
HALIFAX, W.H.RAWSON curving down MILLHOUSE curving up around // 27 1/2
A cloth seal with a remaining sample of the cloth (original length recorded as 27 1/2 yards).
From Mike Patrick, "W.H. Rawson gave evidence to a Commons Select Committee in 1821 on 'the Stamping of Woollen cloth'"
Another example of this seal for 75 yards is held in Calderdale Museum as item 1961.564/1, see BSG.CS.01571.
