Cloth Seal, Company, 1711 - 1853, South Seas & Fisheries

Cloth Seal, Company, 1711 - 1853, South Seas & Fisheries, Image by Kantonsarchäologie Aargau / Béla Polyvás, Found by Cornel Braunwalder.
Found in Aargau Switzerland, 38mm.

Missing // missing // arms of South Seas & Fisheries company // missing

An inner discs from a four disc cloth seal for the South Seas & Fisheries Company. This seal is recorded by Kantonsarchäologie Aargau as Inv.-Nr. Wol.019.50/1.2.

See Geoff Egan, M.12 Fig.48 'Lead cloth seals and related items in the B.M.' (B.M.occ.papers 93), "The company was founded in 1711 to trade with Spanish America. Although it sold off most of its trading rights in 1750 the Company lasted until 1853.... The London finds are presumably accidental losses from cloths being dyed at the side of the Thames for the Company prior to export .... Other seals for this Company have been found in Texas and Tierra del Fuego..."

See also figure 2.11 Egan, G., 1991, Industry and Economics on the Medieval and later London Waterfront. In G.L. Good et al. (eds.), Waterfront Archaeology, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Waterfront Archaeology held at Bristol 23-26 September 1988 (Council for British Archaeology Research Report 74), 9-18.

See 1612 p.347 vol.1 and p.475 vol II in Loden zegels en verzegelingen by Raf Van Laere, 2019 for another example.