Cloth Seal, Cloth Worker's Personal Seal, Privy Mark, 4 scroll base, TG, 1575~1800
Cloth Seal, Cloth Worker's Personal Seal, Privy Mark, TG, 1575~1800, Image & Found by Michael Yeti Yates.
Found in East Anglia, 29mm.
2104? / 253 / NS (scratched) // privy mark T G to sides
The scratched numbers are usually an order number and dimensions, normally length and sometimes weight. Both these numbers seem to large for a length. The initials could be for anyone involved in the chain of supply or even a description of some sort.
See No.213, Fig.30, Geoff Egan, 'Lead cloth seals and related items in the B.M. (B.M. Occasional Paper 93)' - "Clothiers', weavers' & searchers' seals with privy marks etc. ... (?)Late sixteenth-/seventeenth-century."
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