BSG.CS.00520 — Cloth Seal, German, Großhartmannsdorf

Found on the Thames foreshore, 15mm, 4.4g.

Cloth seal with three rows of raised lettering on one side possibly overlying a design (tree on a river bank? or even a whale spouting water??) The other (rivet) side has a definite design but it is not clear.

See other ART seal.

Identified by Michel Royer and Jan van Oostveen as being a German cloth seal from Großhartmannsdorf, "a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany."

See (Keur)loden: Duitsland - Grosshartmannsdorf on Jan van Oostveen's website. He has identified the arms as being those of the Schönberg family.