Cloth Seal, London Clothworkers' Company Arms

Cloth Seal, London Clothworkers' Company Arms, Image & Found by Tony Bibby.
Found in Suffolk near Mildenhall, 14mm.

Missing // Shield bearing a chevron ermine between in chief two havettes and in base a teazel cob // missing // missing

An inner disc from a four disc cloth seal. The shield bears a coat of arms of the London Clothworkers' Company (see Worshipful Company of Clothworkers, Heraldry of the World).

The date is probably 1650 although it could be 1660.

See similar seal found on Thames foreshore.