seal;
seal-impression
- Museum number
- 1880,0624.1
- Description
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Circular bronze seal-matrix with a high ridge pierced at the back. Showing a half-figure of St Thomas of Canterbury in a ship, facing, a pastoral cross in his right hand, in his left the end of a scroll which passes behind his back appearing on his other side, bearing an inscription. Legend around a pearled inner border. With wax impression.
- Production date
- 15thC (After 1462)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 4.40 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Text from 'Good Impressions: Image and Authority in Medieval Seals', ed. Adams, Cherry and Robinson. British Museum 2008. Handlist no.11.12.
Seal of English Merchants in the Low Countries.
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Text from 'Catalogue of British Seal-Dies in the British Museum', A.B. Tonnochy, London 1952, cat. no. 156.
Found at Harrow, Middlesex.
- Location
- On display (G46/dc15)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2021 20 May- 22 Aug, London, BM, Room 35 – Thomas Becket: Murder and the Making of a Saint
1980-1981 19 Dec-3 May, Germany, Stade, Schwedenspeicher-Museum, Hansa in Northern Europe: 1250-1500
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1880,0624.1