Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Tiverton / Cullompton, Nehemiah Upcott & Son*, Image & Held by Michel Royer.
Found in Amsterdam (in urban works), Netherlands, 26mm.
22 / GO, UPCOTT & SON // missing but partial stamp on rivet stub - foot privy mark S F, SAML. BURRIDG... around
*From Peter Maunder, "Mike Patrick suggested Nehemiah Upcott of Cullompton. We knew that Upcott had been shipping serge to Portugal in the early 1800s. As far as I knew, they were manufacturers (ie sergemakers) rather than merchants in the late eighteenth century. However, yesterday I found a single entry in a port record for Tophsam dated 1794 which showed that Nehemiah Upcott exported 8 bales of serge to Rotterdam in June that year, alongside Tiverton and Wellington merchants. I made a selective search of earlier years but found no other Upcott entries. I don't at present have access to the next set of records without visiting the Devon Heritage Centre. These go up to 1798, and I would anticipate that Upcott had further trade with Holland in those years.
In my opinion, therefore, this seal probably belongs to Nehemiah Upcott & Son of Cullompton, and dates to the mid 1790s."