Cloth Seal, Irish Alnage Office Dublin Seal

Cloth Seal, Irish Alnage Office Dublin Seal, Image & Found by Thomas Moroney.
Found ?, ?mm.

Crowned Irish Harp G R to sides at base, DUB(LIN....) // crowned winged leopards head with shuttle in mouth, (C)OR WE(AVERS) around

"In 1754, an advertisement was published that all broad clothes, forest clothes, beavers, druggets and milled woollen goods should have a lead seal attached, three inches long, with the maker's name; and also the alnage seal, a round lead seal, with the crest of the corporation on one side, with the words " Cor. Weavers "; and on the other side a Harp and Crown, with the words round the margin " C. & C. Dublin." It would be interesting to know if any of these seals are now extant." William Cotter Stubbs, 'Weaver's Guild'Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 9:1, (1919) p.69, located by Evie Monaghan who also noted how closely the arms matched that of the London Weavers.

While the alnage ended in 1724 in England, the statute to abolish it in Ireland was not enacted until 1817.

See BSG.CS.01232 & BSG.CS.01598 for other examples of this seal.