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Lead cloth seals & sewing equipement Lead seals such as cloth seals and bale seals were widely used in Europe between the 13th and 19th centuries as a means of identification and as a component of regulation and quality control. Cloth seals appear to be the most thoroughly documented type of seal. Cloth seals were typically two disc seals joined by a connecting strip. These were intended to be folded around each side of a textile and stamped closed, in a manner similar to that in which coins were stamped. Bale seals such were single disc seals, rather than two disc seals, and were also used to identify textiles, as well as parcels and bales of trade goods. The obverse would typically display a city's arms, and the reverse would record data such as the length or width of fabric or the weight of a parcel. Specialist literature - British Museum Occasional paper 93 - Lead cloth seal and related items in the British museum - Geoff Egan |
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Alnage
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Tudor
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medieval lead cloth seal |
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medieval lead cloth seal with crown impression |
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Alnage
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Alanage
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Alnage
cloth seal(x) |
Alnage
colth seal |
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Cloth seal |
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cloth seal(b) |
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Alnage
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Cloth seal |
Tudor
rose cloth seal probably C16th - 17thC (r) |
Alnage
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Great
find - complete Alnage cloth seal with both ends intact |
Lead
cloth seal with 43 ZZ mark |
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Alnage
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Complete and mint condition cloth seal, double B's with crown. Used in the town of Bocholt in Germany during the reign of Charles II(x) taken from Lead Cloth seals at the BM book another opinion expressed 'this
has nothing to do with Bocholt as BB is not the sign of Bocholt, but
stands for Bombasine als textile quality |
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Early
cloth seal V on weave pattern(c) |
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Possible
Queen Anne 1704 lead Alnage seal with portcullis and duty paid symbol |
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Stunning 16thC Elizabethian lead cloth seal |
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17thC Commonwealth lead cloth seal |
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Lead
palm guards and eggs for sewing 17th/18thC - Bodkin needles |
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17thc Bodkin needles
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