BSG.CS.01744 — Cloth Seal, French, Ganges, I. Gervais Ganges Seal

Found in Augsburg, Bavaria, South Germany, 17mm, 6.8g.

Both sides have a continuous circular border of touching pellets. Curved around the inside of the first face is .I.GERVAIS..*. with a fleur di lise at its centre. On the second face GANGES is curved across the top with a laurel or wings curved up from the bottom either side of a sheild with a cross or simply devided into quarters.

From Daniel Slowik, "Ganges is a famous place for the silk, like and near Nimes. Gervais is the name of the 'fabricant'."

Ganges is a commune in the Hérault department in Languedoc-Roussillon in southern France. The arms of Ganges is a quartered shield with a lion rampant in each quadrant.