Cloth Seal, German, Wesel, Image & Found by Fishy.
Found in Norfolk, 35mm.
One disc from a four disc cloth seal showing the arms of the town of Wesel, an ornate shield with three weasels courant (running at full speed) and an escutcheon at the centre, inscription around reads .(M)EM(E)NTO.MO(R)I. (remember death).
See No.319 Fig.42, Geoff Egan, 'Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum' Occasional Paper 93.
"ornate shield with three weasels courant, central ornate inescutcheon, MEMENTO.MORI around ... The town's bombasines appear in seventeen-century books listing the duty payable on goods imported into England; 'weazell fustians' are rated at £2 in the book of(?)1609, and at £8 under Charles II (James 1857, 155). Dating to the end of the sixteenth/seventeenth century seems appropriate for [these] seals. ... The town's four-part seals may well be of slightly later date, but the fabric(s) could have remained the same."
