Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Halifax, W.H. Rawson

Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Halifax, W.H. Rawson, Image & Held by Calderdale Museum.
Find spot unknown, ?mm.

HALIFAX, W.H.RAWSON curving down MILLHOUSE curving up around // 75

A cloth seal with original length recorded as 75 yards.

From Mike Patrick, "W.H. Rawson gave evidence to a Commons Select Committee in 1821 on 'the Stamping of Woollen cloth'"

Shown by kind permission of Calderdale Museum (item 1961.564/1).

For another example of this seal for 27 1/2 yards see BSG.CS.01563.