Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Tiverton, Ben Dickinson / Sam Burridge
Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Tiverton, Ben Dickinson / Sam Burridge, Image & Found by Martijn van Gerven.
Found Amsterdam, Netherlands, 25mm, 9g.
22 / GO, B(ENJ;)DICKENSON.TIVERTON. around // privy mark of 4 with extended vertical crossed with a foot and S F to sides of base, (SA)M BU(RRIDGE.TI)VERTON. around
This is a cloth seal from Tiverton in Devon. Evans Type 4.5.2.*. The large amount of Tiverton serge produced was almost entirely exported to the Continent where many cloth seals have been recovered, mostly bearing the distinctive 4 impaled foot privy mark of Samuel Foote.