Cloth Seal, Sandwich, Bay
Cloth Seal, Sandwich, Bay, Image & Found by Peter Eggers.
Found in 1982 centre of Amsterdam, at the building site of opera / townhall, 'de Stopera'*, 40mm, 18.4g.
*it is from the same site in Amsterdam as BSG.CS.00936, designated 'het waterloo plein' by Professor J. Gawronski. The first construction project was started before 1597, so this cloth seal is prior to that date.
Crowned double rose S / 1 / (8?) W / 5 to sides, SANDW...BAYE around // missing, double rivet stubs (cloth weave imprint on reverse of rivet disc)
A Sandwich, Kent Cloth seal for bay produced by immigrant Low Countries weavers.
The rose beneath a crown could be an example of the second grade of Sandwich bay referred to in Thomas Robinson’s letter to Mr Carmarden in 1594 [Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House, Volume 4: 1590-1594]. PAS LON-D8F9B3 appears to be a parallel to this seal and was found at Dowgate, London.
“In 1561 a group of families, numbering 406 persons, were allowed to settle in Sandwich. They apparently came from London, being ‘planted’, upon the Queen’s order, with the purpose of ‘repaire to our said towne and porte of Sandwich’ through textile production and fishing.” [Harte, N.B., 1997, p.218, Holderness, B.A., The New Draperies in the Low Countries and England, 1300-1800, pp.217-243]
See BSG.CS.00936 for another complete example of this seal. That one is thought to date 1572 this example may indicate a date in the 1580's - clockwise beneath the S and W either side of the rose.
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