Cloth Seal, Blackwell Hall, ABE, Image by Karen Ellis-Andrews, Found by Roy Ellis.
Found on Thames Foreshore, 23mm.
ABE / BLACKWELL (all scratched) // uncertain marks
"Blackwell Hall in the City of London (also known as Bakewell Hall) was the centre for the wool and cloth trade in England from mediaeval times until the 19th century. Cloth manufacturers and clothiers from provincial England brought their material to Blackwell Hall to display and sell it to merchants and drapers."
It is not known what ABE stood for.
See BSG.CS.01035 for a known Blackwell Hall Factors seal.